The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 1, sentence 53

He had warded it off with his sword, and at dawn, when he was becoming quite worn out, the wasp had vanished as suddenly as it had appeared.

Who acts: question, wasp · What happens: ward off, become, wear out, vanish, appear · To what, where: story, it

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (question, wasp), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 warded	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 warded	aux
3	warded	ward	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 warded	obj
5	off	off	ADP	_	3 warded	compound:prt
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 sword	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 sword	nmod:poss
8	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 warded	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 vanished	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 vanished	cc
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 dawn	case
12	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 vanished	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 becoming	punct
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 becoming	advmod
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 becoming	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 becoming	aux
17	becoming	become	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 dawn	conj
18	quite	quite	ADV	_	19 worn	advmod
19	worn	wear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 becoming	xcomp
20	out	out	ADP	_	19 worn	compound:prt
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 dawn	punct
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 wasp	det
23	wasp	wasp	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 vanished	nsubj
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 vanished	aux
25	vanished	vanish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 warded	conj
26	as	as	ADV	_	27 suddenly	advmod
27	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	25 vanished	advmod
28	as	as	SCONJ	_	31 appeared	mark
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 appeared	nsubj:pass
30	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 appeared	aux
31	appeared	appear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 vanished	advcl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 warded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	ward off	past · perfect	question	story		with question's sword	tree rules
2	become	past · progressive	question				tree rules
3	wear out	participle	question not said here				vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent
4	vanish	past · perfect	the wasp		dawn	suddenly property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	appear	past · perfect · passive		it			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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