The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 122

Rasmus was unwilling to go on, but the two old people sided with Niels, who said, “The nights aren’t dark, and the moon will soon be up.

Who acts: Rasmus, two old people, Niels, nights, moon · What happens: unwill, go on, side, say, not be, be up · To what, where: Niels · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rasmus, two old people, Niels, nights), 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	Rasmus	Rasmus	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 unwilling	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 unwilling	aux
3	unwilling	unwill	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 go	mark
5	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 unwilling	xcomp
6	on	on	ADV	_	5 go	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 sided	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 sided	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 people	det
10	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 people	nummod
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 people	amod
12	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 sided	nsubj
13	sided	side	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 unwilling	parataxis
14	with	with	ADP	_	15 Niels	case
15	Niels	Niels	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 sided	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 said	nsubj
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 Niels	advcl:relcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 dark	punct
20	“	"	PUNCT	_	25 dark	punct
21	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 nights	det
22	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 dark	nsubj
23	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 dark	cop
24	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 dark	advmod
25	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 said	ccomp
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 be	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 be	cc
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 moon	det
29	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 be	nsubj
30	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 be	aux
31	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	32 be	advmod
32	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 sided	conj
33	up	up	ADP	_	32 be	compound:prt
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 unwilling	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	unwill	past · progressive	Rasmus			tree rules
2	go on	to-infinitive	Rasmus not said here			vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	side	past	the two old people	Niels		vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent niels=Destination
4	say speech: assert	past	Niels			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	not is in a quote	present	the nights		dark property	tree rules
6	be up in a quote	future	the moon		soon property	vn exist-47.1 «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: «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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