The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 104

Every evening after dark the Shifty Lad went to the home of the Black Gallows Bird, and many were the new tricks he learned.

Who acts: evening, many new tricks · What happens: go, be, learn · To what, where: home, many new tricks

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (evening, many new tricks), 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	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 evening	det
2	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 went	nsubj
3	after	after	ADP	_	7 Lad	case
4	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Lad	amod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Lad	det
6	Shifty	shifty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Lad	amod
7	Lad	Lad	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 evening	nmod
8	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 home	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 home	det
11	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 went	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	16 Bird	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Bird	det
14	Black	Black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 Gallows	amod
15	Gallows	Gallows	PROPN	Number=Plur	16 Bird	compound
16	Bird	Bird	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 home	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 learned	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 learned	cc
19	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 tricks	amod
20	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 tricks	cop
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 tricks	det
22	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 tricks	amod
23	tricks	trick	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 learned	nsubj
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 learned	nsubj
25	learned	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 went	conj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	go	past	every evening after the dark Shifty Lad		the home of the Gallows Bird	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to home=Initial_Location
2	is a	past		the many new tricks		tree rules
3	learn	past	the many new tricks			vn learn-14-1 «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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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