The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 21, sentence 54

He kept silence, however, till the evening, when he said to his mistress:

Who acts: buffalo · What happens: keep, say · To what, where: silence, mistress · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (buffalo), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 kept	nsubj
2	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 kept	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 however	punct
5	however	however	ADV	_	2 kept	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 evening	punct
7	till	till	ADP	_	9 evening	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 evening	det
9	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 kept	obl:unmarked
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 said	advmod
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 said	nsubj
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 kept	parataxis
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 mistress	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 mistress	nmod:poss
16	mistress	mistress	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	obl
17	:	:	PUNCT	_	2 kept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	buffalo	silence			evening	however property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent silence=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	buffalo		buffalo's mistress				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to mistress=Recipient

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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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