The Violet Fairy Book, The Enchanted Knife, sentence 29

It was standing by itself in one corner, and in a moment he was beside it, tearing away the earth with his knife.

Who acts: three, man · What happens: stand, be, tear away · To what, where: one corner, three, earth

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Knife. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (three, man), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 standing	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 standing	aux
3	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 itself	case
5	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 standing	obl
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 corner	case
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 corner	nummod
8	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 standing	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 tearing	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 tearing	cc
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 moment	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 moment	det
13	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 tearing	obl
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 it	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 it	cop
16	beside	beside	ADP	_	17 it	case
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 tearing	nsubj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 tearing	punct
19	tearing	tear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 standing	conj
20	away	away	ADV	_	19 tearing	advmod
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 earth	det
22	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 tearing	obj
23	with	with	ADP	_	25 knife	case
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 knife	nmod:poss
25	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 tearing	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 standing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past · progressive	three		one corner		by three	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by itself=Location
2	is	past	man		three			tree rules
3	tear away	gerund	three	the earth		moment	with man's knife; away property	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent earth=Patient with knife=Instrument

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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