The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 59

Taking his arm he drew him into a quiet place and told him all that had happened since they had last met.

Who acts: man, that, pipes · What happens: take, draw, tell, happen, meet · To what, where: arm, Tiidu, quiet place, man · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, that, pipes), 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	Taking	take	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 drew	csubj
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 arm	nmod:poss
3	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Taking	obj
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 drew	nsubj
5	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 drew	obj
7	into	into	ADP	_	10 place	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 place	det
9	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 place	amod
10	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 drew	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 told	cc
12	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 drew	conj
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 told	iobj
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 happened	det:predet
15	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 happened	nsubj
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 happened	aux
17	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 told	ccomp
18	since	since	SCONJ	_	22 met	mark
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 met	nsubj
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 met	aux
21	last	last	ADV	_	22 met	advmod
22	met	meet	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 happened	advcl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 drew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	take	gerund		man's arm			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Theme
2	draw	past	man	Tiidu		into a quiet place result	vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Patient into place=Result
3	tell speech: assert	past	man not said here		man		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
4	happen	past · perfect	that				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	meet	past · perfect	pipes = pipe			last property	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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