The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 1, sentence 63

Earth and water, trees and plants, birds and beasts, each was different from those he had seen before; but what most struck terror into his heart was the absolute stillness that reigned everywhere.

Who acts: each, fellow, Earth water, absolute stillness · What happens: be, see, strike, reign · To what, where: those, terror, heart, absolute stillness

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, 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 (each, fellow, Earth water, absolute stillness), 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	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 water	compound
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 water	cc
3	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 trees	punct
5	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 water	conj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 plants	cc
7	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 water	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 birds	punct
9	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 plants	conj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 beasts	cc
11	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 plants	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 different	punct
13	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	15 different	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 different	cop
15	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 water	parataxis
16	from	from	ADP	_	17 those	case
17	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	15 different	obl
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 seen	nsubj
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 seen	aux
20	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 those	acl:relcl
21	before	before	ADV	_	20 seen	advmod
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 stillness	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	34 stillness	cc
24	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	34 stillness	nsubj
25	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	26 struck	advmod
26	struck	strike	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 what	acl:relcl
27	terror	terror	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 struck	obj
28	into	into	ADP	_	30 heart	case
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 heart	nmod:poss
30	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 struck	obl
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 stillness	cop
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 stillness	det
33	absolute	absolute	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 stillness	amod
34	stillness	stillness	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 water	conj
35	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 reigned	nsubj
36	reigned	reign	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 stillness	acl:relcl
37	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	36 reigned	advmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 water	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	each		those	different property	tree rules
2	see	past · perfect	fellow			before property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	strike	participle		terror		into fellow's heart result	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent terror=Patient into heart=Result
4	is a	past	Earth water and trees and plants and birds and beasts but the absolute stillness	the absolute stillness			tree rules
5	reign	past	the absolute stillness			everywhere property	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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