The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 46

Tiidu had expected this summons, and had sat up all night changing his appearance, and so well had he succeeded that not a trace remained either of the piper or of the apple seller.

Who acts: night, Tiidu, trace · What happens: expect, sit up, change, have, succeed, remain · To what, where: Tiidu, appearance, either

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (night, Tiidu, trace), 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	Tiidu	Tiidu	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 expected	nsubj:pass
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 expected	aux
3	expected	expect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 summons	det
5	summons	summon	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 expected	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 sat	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 sat	cc
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 sat	aux
9	sat	sit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 expected	conj
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 sat	compound:prt
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 night	det
12	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sat	obl:unmarked
13	changing	change	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 night	acl
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 appearance	nmod:poss
15	appearance	appearance	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 changing	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 had	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 had	cc
18	so	so	ADV	_	20 had	advmod
19	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	20 had	advmod
20	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 expected	parataxis
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 succeeded	nsubj
22	succeeded	succeed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 had	conj
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 remained	mark
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 trace	advmod
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 trace	det
26	trace	trace	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 remained	nsubj
27	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 succeeded	advcl
28	either	either	DET	PronType=Ind	27 remained	obj
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 piper	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 piper	det
31	piper	piper	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 either	nmod
32	or	or	CCONJ	_	36 seller	cc
33	of	of	ADP	_	36 seller	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 seller	det
35	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 seller	compound
36	seller	seller	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 piper	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 expected	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	expect	past · perfect · passive		Tiidu			vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme summon=Eventuality
2	sit up	past · perfect			night		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	change	gerund	all night not said here	Tiidu's appearance			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent appearance=Patient
4	have	past				well property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	succeed	past	Tiidu				vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	remain	past	a trace	either			vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme either=Attribute

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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