The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 3, sentence 7

‘The ball moves in my hand, and I’m sure we are being followed!’ and behind them they saw a black cloud flying before the wind.

Who acts: ball, I, runaways, black cloud · What happens: move, be, follow, see, fly · To what, where: hand, we, black cloud, wind

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ball, I, runaways, black cloud), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	4 moves	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 ball	det
3	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 moves	nsubj
4	moves	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 hand	case
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 hand	nmod:poss
7	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 moves	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 ’m	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 ’m	cc
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 ’m	nsubj
11	’m	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 moves	conj
12	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 ’m	xcomp
13	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 followed	nsubj:pass
14	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 followed	aux:pass
15	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 followed	aux:pass
16	followed	follow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 sure	ccomp
17	!	!	PUNCT	_	11 ’m	punct
18	’	'	PUNCT	_	11 ’m	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 saw	cc
20	behind	behind	ADP	_	21 them	case
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 saw	obl
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 saw	nsubj
23	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 moves	conj
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 cloud	det
25	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 cloud	amod
26	cloud	cloud	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 saw	obj
27	flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 cloud	acl
28	before	before	ADP	_	30 wind	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 wind	det
30	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 flying	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 moves	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	move	present	the ball		my hand		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in hand=Trajectory
2	be	present	I			sure property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	follow	present · passive		we			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	see	past	runaways = runaway	a black cloud		behind runaways = runaway	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cloud=Stimulus
5	fly	gerund	a black cloud not said here		the wind		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before wind=Location

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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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