--- title: In an instant the garden and lawn and everything else had vanished u… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: In an instant the garden and lawn and everything else had vanished utterly, as if the earth had opened and swallowed them up, and as far as the eye could reach you could see nothing but water, which seemed at last to touch heaven itself. Who acts: garden, eye, you. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Bo --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/2/58/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Violet Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/) / [A Tale of the Tontlawald](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/2/) / 58 # The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 58 In an instant the garden and lawn and everything else had vanished utterly, as if the earth had opened and swallowed them up, and as far as the eye could reach you could see nothing but water, which seemed at last to touch heaven itself. **Who acts:** garden, eye, you · **What happens:** vanish, open, swallow up, reach, see, seem · **To what, where:** instant, earth, drops, nothing, heaven This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, A Tale of the Tontlawald. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (garden, eye, you), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg641:2:58 # text = In an instant the garden and lawn and everything else had vanished utterly, as if the earth had opened and swallowed them up, and as far as the eye could reach you could see nothing but water, which seemed at last to touch heaven itself. 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 instant instant NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 garden garden NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 lawn lawn NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 everything everything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 5 conj _ _ 10 else else ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 11 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 12 vanished vanish VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 13 utterly utterly ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 15 as as SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 16 if if SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 earth earth NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj:pass _ _ 19 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 20 opened open VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 conj _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 swallowed swallow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 23 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obj _ _ 24 up up ADP RP _ 22 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 27 as as ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 36 advmod _ _ 29 as as SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 eye eye NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 32 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 33 reach reach VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 advcl _ _ 34 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 35 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 36 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 conj _ _ 37 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 36 obj _ _ 38 but but CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 39 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 41 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 42 nsubj _ _ 42 seemed seem VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 37 acl:relcl _ _ 43 at at ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 44 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 xcomp _ _ 45 to to PART TO _ 46 mark _ _ 46 touch touch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 44 xcomp _ _ 47 heaven heaven NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 obj _ _ 48 itself itself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes 47 nmod:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **vanish** | past · perfect | the garden and lawn | | | a instant | | utterly *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **open** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect · passive | | the earth | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | | 3 | **swallow up** | past | the garden and lawn *not said here* | drops *= drop* | | | | | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | | 4 | **reach** | could | the eye | | | | | | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **see** | could | you | nothing | | | | far *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus | | 6 | **seem** | past | | | | | | last *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **touch** | to-infinitive | | heaven water | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme heaven=Co-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:** «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. - ← previous: [sentence 57](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/2/57/) - next →: [sentence 59](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/2/59/) - ↑ back to [A Tale of the Tontlawald](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/2/)