The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 45

It was the first time that the youth had been present on such an occasion, and he stood silently aside watching the graceful dances and the pretty games played by the young people.

Who acts: feast, that, man · What happens: be, stand, watch, play · To what, where: first time, present, occasion, graceful dances, pretty games

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (feast, that, 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 time	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 time	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 time	det
4	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 time	amod
5	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 present	nsubj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 youth	det
8	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 present	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 present	aux
10	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 present	cop
11	present	present	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 time	parataxis
12	on	on	ADP	_	15 occasion	case
13	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	15 occasion	det:predet
14	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 occasion	det
15	occasion	occasion	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 present	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 stood	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 stood	cc
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 stood	nsubj
19	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 time	parataxis
20	silently	silently	ADV	_	19 stood	advmod
21	aside	aside	ADV	_	22 watching	advmod
22	watching	watch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 stood	advcl
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 dances	det
24	graceful	graceful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 dances	amod
25	dances	dance	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 watching	obj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 games	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 games	det
28	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 games	amod
29	games	game	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 dances	conj
30	played	play	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 games	acl
31	by	by	ADP	_	34 people	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 people	det
33	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 people	amod
34	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 played	obl:agent
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 time	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	feast	the first time			tree rules
2	is a	past · perfect	that	present	such occasion		tree rules
3	stand	past	man			silently property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	watch	gerund	man not said here	the graceful dances and the pretty games		aside property	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dance=Theme
5	play	participle		the pretty games not said here			vn performance-26.7-1 «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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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