The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 2, sentence 32

This continued for a few minutes, and then everything vanished into thin air, and Iwanich found himself suddenly alone upon a desolate heath covered with rocks and stones.

Who acts: everything, Iwanich · What happens: continue, vanish, find, desolate, cover · To what, where: This, thin air, Iwanich, desolate heath

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (everything, Iwanich), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 continued	nsubj:pass
2	continued	continue	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	6 minutes	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 minutes	det
5	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 minutes	amod
6	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 continued	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 vanished	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 vanished	cc
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 vanished	advmod
10	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	11 vanished	nsubj
11	vanished	vanish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 continued	parataxis
12	into	into	ADP	_	14 air	case
13	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 air	amod
14	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 vanished	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 found	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 found	cc
17	Iwanich	Iwanich	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 found	nsubj
18	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 vanished	conj
19	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	18 found	obj
20	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	21 alone	advmod
21	alone	alone	ADV	_	18 found	advmod
22	upon	upon	ADP	_	25 heath	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 heath	det
24	desolate	desolate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 heath	compound
25	heath	heath	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 found	obl
26	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 heath	acl
27	with	with	ADP	_	28 rocks	case
28	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 covered	obl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 stones	cc
30	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 rocks	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 continued	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	continue	participle · passive		This		minute		vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Theme
2	vanish	past	everything		thin air	then		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	find	past	Iwanich	Iwanich			upon a desolate heath; alone property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic
4	desolate	infinitive						tree rules
5	cover	participle		a desolate heath not said here			with rocks and stones	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with rock=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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