The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 111

All at once they flew aside, the large sledge stood still, and the figure who was driving stood up.

Who acts: snowflakes, large sledge, figure · What happens: fly, stand, drive, stand up · To what, where: figure

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (snowflakes, large sledge, figure), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 flew	advmod
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 once	case
3	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 flew	obl
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 flew	nsubj
5	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	aside	aside	ADV	_	5 flew	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 stood	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 sledge	det
9	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 sledge	amod
10	sledge	sledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 stood	nsubj
11	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 flew	conj
12	still	still	ADV	_	11 stood	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 figure	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 figure	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 figure	det
16	figure	figure	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 stood	obl
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 driving	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 driving	aux
19	driving	drive	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 figure	acl:relcl
20	stood	stand	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 driving	xcomp
21	up	up	ADP	_	20 stood	compound:prt
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 flew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	fly	past	snowflakes = snowflake			aside property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at once=Location
2	stand	past	the large sledge	the figure	still		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	drive	past · progressive	the figure				vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Result
4	stand up	participle	the figure not said here				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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