The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 2, sentence 94

They were just about to land, when the mother of the genius stood before them.

Who acts: slaves, mother · What happens: land, stand

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (slaves, mother), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 land	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 land	aux
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 about	advmod
4	about	about	ADV	_	6 land	advmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 land	mark
6	land	land	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 stood	punct
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 stood	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 mother	det
10	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 stood	nsubj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 genius	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 genius	det
13	genius	genius	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 mother	nmod
14	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 land	conj
15	before	before	ADP	_	16 them	case
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 stood	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 land	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	land	past	slaves = slave					about property	vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	stand	past	the mother of the genius				before slaves = slave		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before they=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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