The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1, sentence 43

Florea made instantly for the bridge, and there pulled up to look around him once more, to take leave of his native land Then he turned, but before him was standing a dragon--oh!

Who acts: Florea · What happens: make, pull up, look, take, turn, stand · To what, where: leave, dragon

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, 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 (Florea), 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	Florea	Florea	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	instantly	instantly	ADV	_	2 made	advmod
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 bridge	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bridge	det
6	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 made	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 pulled	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 pulled	cc
9	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 pulled	advmod
10	pulled	pull	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 made	parataxis
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 pulled	compound:prt
12	to	to	PART	_	13 look	mark
13	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 pulled	advcl
14	around	around	ADP	_	15 him	case
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 look	obl
16	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	17 more	advmod
17	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	13 look	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 take	punct
19	to	to	PART	_	20 take	mark
20	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 look	conj
21	leave	leave	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 take	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	25 land	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 land	nmod:poss
24	native	native	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 land	amod
25	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 leave	nmod
26	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	28 turned	advmod
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 turned	nsubj
28	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 take	advcl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 standing	punct
30	but	but	CCONJ	_	34 standing	cc
31	before	before	SCONJ	_	34 standing	mark
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 standing	nsubj
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 standing	aux
34	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 made	advcl
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 dragon	det
36	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 standing	obj
37	--	--	PUNCT	_	38 oh	punct
38	oh	oh	INTJ	_	34 standing	discourse
39	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	Florea				for the bridge; instantly property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent for bridge=Asset
2	pull up	participle			there			vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	look	to-infinitive					around bridge	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent around he=Theme
4	take	to-infinitive		leave of bridge's native land				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leave=Theme
5	turn	past	Florea			then		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
6	stand	past · progressive	Florea	a dragon				vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dragon=Stimulus

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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