The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 56

After a few moments there came out of the forest a maiden, gliding over the grass so lightly that her feet seemed scarcely to touch the ground, and stood beside the spring.

Who acts: feet · What happens: come out, glide, seem, touch, stand · To what, where: forest, grass, ground

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon of the North(2). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (feet), 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	After	after	ADP	_	4 moments	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 moments	det
3	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 moments	amod
4	moments	moment	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 came	obl
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 came	advmod
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	out	out	ADP	_	10 forest	case
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 forest	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 forest	det
10	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	obl
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 forest	appos
12	maiden	maiden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 a	amod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 gliding	punct
14	gliding	glide	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 maiden	advcl
15	over	over	ADP	_	17 grass	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 grass	det
17	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 gliding	obl
18	so	so	ADV	_	19 lightly	advmod
19	lightly	lightly	ADV	_	14 gliding	advmod
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 seemed	mark
21	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 feet	nmod:poss
22	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 seemed	nsubj
23	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 lightly	advcl
24	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	_	26 touch	advmod
25	to	to	PART	_	26 touch	mark
26	touch	touch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 seemed	xcomp
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 ground	det
28	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 touch	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 stood	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 stood	cc
31	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 seemed	conj
32	beside	beside	ADP	_	34 spring	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 spring	det
34	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 stood	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come out	past		the forest	there	moment		vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient forest=Result
2	glide	gerund			the grass		lightly property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over grass=Trajectory
3	seem	past	forest's feet					vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
4	touch	to-infinitive	forest's feet not said here	the ground			scarcely property	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ground=Co-Theme
5	stand	past	forest's feet not said here			spring		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 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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