The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 15

The party had listened with interest to this speech, but by the time it was ended the hour was late, and they went their ways homeward, leaving only one man who had sat unheeded in a corner the whole evening through.

Who acts: hour, flames, one man · What happens: listen, end, be, go, leave, sit · To what, where: party, ways, one man, corner

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hour, flames, one man), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 party	det
2	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 listened	nsubj:pass
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 listened	aux
4	listened	listen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 interest	case
6	interest	interest	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 listened	obl
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 speech	case
8	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 speech	det
9	speech	speech	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 interest	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 ended	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 ended	cc
12	by	by	ADP	_	14 time	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 time	det
14	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 ended	obl
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 ended	nsubj:pass
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 ended	aux:pass
17	ended	end	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 listened	parataxis
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 hour	det
19	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 late	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 late	cop
21	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 ended	parataxis
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 went	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 went	cc
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 went	nsubj
25	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 listened	parataxis
26	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 ways	nmod:poss
27	ways	way	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 went	obj
28	homeward	homeward	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 went	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 leaving	punct
30	leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 went	advcl
31	only	only	ADV	_	32 one	advmod
32	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 man	nummod
33	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 leaving	obj
34	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 sat	nsubj
35	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 sat	aux
36	sat	sit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	33 man	acl:relcl
37	unheeded	unheeded	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 sat	xcomp
38	in	in	ADP	_	40 corner	case
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 corner	det
40	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 sat	obl
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 evening	det
42	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 evening	amod
43	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 leaving	obl:unmarked
44	through	through	ADV	_	30 leaving	advmod
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 listened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	listen	past · perfect · passive		the party			with interest to this speech	tree rules
2	end	past · passive		party		time		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality
3	is	past	the hour				late property	tree rules
4	go	past	flames = flame	flames's ways			homeward obl	vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme
5	leave	gerund	flames = flame not said here	one man		evening	through property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme
6	sit	past · perfect	one man		a corner		unheeded property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in corner=Location

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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