The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 3, sentence 9
In an instant the tower had vanished as if it had never been, and in its place was the finger of the princess with a ring round it.
Who acts: tower · What happens: vanish, not be, be · To what, where: instant, finger, place
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, 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 (tower), 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 | 7 vanished | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 tower | det |
| 5 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 vanished | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 vanished | aux |
| 7 | vanished | vanish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 been | mark |
| 9 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 13 been | mark |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 been | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 been | aux |
| 12 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 13 been | advmod |
| 13 | been | be | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 vanished | advcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 finger | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 finger | cc |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 place | case |
| 17 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 place | nmod:poss |
| 18 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 finger | obl |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 finger | cop |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 finger | det |
| 21 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 vanished | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 princess | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 princess | det |
| 24 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 finger | nmod |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 ring | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 ring | det |
| 27 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 princess | nmod |
| 28 | round | round | ADP | _ | 29 it | case |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 ring | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 vanished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | vanish | past · perfect | the tower | a instant | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not be | past · perfect | tower | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | the finger | tower's place | of the princess with a ring round tower | tree rules |
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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