The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 58

In an instant the garden and lawn and everything else had vanished utterly, as if the earth had opened and swallowed them up, and as far as the eye could reach you could see nothing but water, which seemed at last to touch heaven itself.

Who acts: garden, eye, you · What happens: vanish, open, swallow up, reach, see, seem · To what, where: instant, earth, drops, nothing, heaven

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, A Tale of the Tontlawald. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (garden, eye, you), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 instant	case
2	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 instant	det
3	instant	instant	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 vanished	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 garden	det
5	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 vanished	nsubj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 lawn	cc
7	lawn	lawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 garden	conj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 everything	cc
9	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	5 garden	conj
10	else	else	ADV	_	9 everything	advmod
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 vanished	aux
12	vanished	vanish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
13	utterly	utterly	ADV	_	12 vanished	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 opened	punct
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	20 opened	mark
16	if	if	SCONJ	_	20 opened	mark
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 earth	det
18	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 opened	nsubj:pass
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 opened	aux
20	opened	open	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 vanished	conj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 swallowed	cc
22	swallowed	swallow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 vanished	conj
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 swallowed	obj
24	up	up	ADP	_	22 swallowed	compound:prt
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 see	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 see	cc
27	as	as	ADV	_	28 far	advmod
28	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	36 see	advmod
29	as	as	SCONJ	_	33 reach	mark
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 eye	det
31	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 reach	nsubj
32	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 reach	aux
33	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 far	advcl
34	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	36 see	nsubj
35	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 see	aux
36	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 vanished	conj
37	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	36 see	obj
38	but	but	CCONJ	_	39 water	cc
39	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 nothing	conj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 seemed	punct
41	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	42 seemed	nsubj
42	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 nothing	acl:relcl
43	at	at	ADP	_	44 last	case
44	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 seemed	xcomp
45	to	to	PART	_	46 touch	mark
46	touch	touch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 last	xcomp
47	heaven	heaven	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 touch	obj
48	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	47 heaven	nmod:unmarked
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 vanished	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	vanish	past · perfect	the garden and lawn		a instant	utterly property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	open a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect · passive		the earth			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
3	swallow up	past	the garden and lawn not said here	drops = drop			vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
4	reach	could	the eye				vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	see	could	you	nothing		far property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus
6	seem	past				last property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
7	touch	to-infinitive		heaven water			vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme heaven=Co-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 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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