Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, sentence 67

As soon as the people were rising at the end of Mass, the lady slipped out through the gate, was in the golden saddle in an instant, and sweeping away ahead of the wind.

Who acts: people, lady · What happens: rise, slip out, be, sweep away · To what, where: end, Mass, gate, golden saddle

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Fair, Brown, and Trembling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, lady), 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	As	as	ADV	_	2 soon	advmod
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 rising	advmod
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 rising	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 people	det
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 rising	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 rising	aux
7	rising	rise	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 end	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 end	det
10	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 rising	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 Mass	case
12	Mass	Mass	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 end	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 slipped	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 lady	det
15	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 slipped	nsubj
16	slipped	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 Mass	acl:relcl
17	out	out	ADP	_	16 slipped	compound:prt
18	through	through	ADP	_	20 gate	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 gate	det
20	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 slipped	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 saddle	punct
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 saddle	cop
23	in	in	ADP	_	26 saddle	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 saddle	det
25	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 saddle	amod
26	saddle	saddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 rising	obl
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 instant	case
28	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 instant	det
29	instant	instant	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 saddle	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 sweeping	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 sweeping	cc
32	sweeping	sweep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 rising	advcl
33	away	away	ADV	_	32 sweeping	advmod
34	ahead	ahead	ADV	_	32 sweeping	advmod
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 wind	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 wind	det
37	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 ahead	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 rising	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rise	past · progressive	the people			at the end of Mass	soon property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at end=Location
2	slip out	past	the lady	Mass not said here	the gate			vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent mass=Patient
3	is	past			the golden saddle		in a instant	tree rules
4	sweep away	gerund	the people not said here				ahead, away property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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