The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 36, sentence 51

'Dear mother,' said Lyman, who had come in unseen, and was kneeling in front of the fire. '

Who acts: Dear mother, Lyman · What happens: say, come, kneel · To what, where: unseen, front · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dear mother, Lyman), 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	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 mother	punct
2	Dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 mother	amod
3	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 mother	punct
5	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 mother	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	Lyman	Lyman	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 come	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 come	punct
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 come	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 come	aux
11	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 said	ccomp
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 unseen	case
13	unseen	unseen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 come	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 kneeling	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 kneeling	cc
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 kneeling	aux
17	kneeling	kneel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 said	ccomp
18	in	in	ADP	_	19 front	case
19	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 kneeling	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 fire	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 fire	det
22	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 front	nmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 kneeling	punct
24	'	'	PUNCT	_	17 kneeling	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Dear mother		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	come	past · perfect	Lyman	unseen	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in unseen=Location
3	kneel	past · progressive		front of the fire	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in front=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 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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