The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 37, sentence 84

But one youth always lingered longer than the rest, and night would still see him engaged in the search, though his clothes stuck to his skin and his teeth chattered.

Who acts: man, clothes · What happens: linger, see, engage, stick, chatter · To what, where: one youth, man, search, clothes

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, clothes), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 lingered	cc
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 youth	nummod
3	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lingered	nsubj:pass
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 lingered	advmod
5	lingered	linger	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 lingered	advmod
7	than	than	ADP	_	9 rest	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 rest	det
9	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 longer	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 see	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 see	cc
12	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 see	obl:unmarked
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 see	aux
14	still	still	ADV	_	15 see	advmod
15	see	see	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 lingered	parataxis
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 see	obj
17	engaged	engage	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 see	xcomp
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 search	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 search	det
20	search	search	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 engaged	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 chattered	punct
22	though	though	SCONJ	_	32 chattered	mark
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 clothes	nmod:poss
24	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	32 chattered	nsubj
25	stuck	stick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 clothes	acl
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 skin	case
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 skin	nmod:poss
28	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 stuck	obl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 teeth	cc
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 teeth	nmod:poss
31	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 clothes	conj
32	chattered	chatter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 see	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 lingered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	linger	participle · passive		one youth		always, long property	tree rules
2	see	would		man	still; night		tree rules
3	engage	participle	man not said here			in the search goal	vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent in search=Goal
4	stick	participle		man's clothes and man's teeth not said here		to man's skin	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to skin=Co-Patient
5	chatter	past	man's clothes and man's teeth				vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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