The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 52

Christian then immediately went in front of the altar, and took the book in his hand, and stood thus until the clock struck twelve, and the appearance sprang out of the chest.

Who acts: clock, appearance · What happens: go, take, stand, strike, spring out · To what, where: front, book, hand, twelve, chest

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (clock, appearance), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Christian	Christian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 went	advcl
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 went	advmod
3	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	4 went	advmod
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 front	case
6	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 altar	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 altar	det
9	altar	altar	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 front	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 took	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 took	cc
12	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	parataxis
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 book	det
14	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 took	obj
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 hand	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 hand	nmod:poss
17	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 book	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 stood	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 stood	cc
20	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 took	conj
21	thus	thus	ADV	_	20 stood	advmod
22	until	until	SCONJ	_	25 struck	mark
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 clock	det
24	clock	clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 struck	nsubj
25	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 stood	advcl
26	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 struck	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 sprang	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 sprang	cc
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 appearance	det
30	appearance	appearance	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 sprang	nsubj
31	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 took	conj
32	out	out	ADP	_	35 chest	case
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 chest	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 chest	det
35	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 sprang	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past			front of the altar	then	immediately property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in front=Location
2	take	past		the book	book's hand			vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent book=Value in hand=Location
3	stand	past					thus property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	strike	past	the clock	twelve				vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent twelve=Patient
5	spring out	past	the appearance	the chest				vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location chest=Theme

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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