The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 105

By-and-by he was allowed to go out with the Bird and watch him at work, and at last there came a day when his master though that he had grown clever enough to help in a big robbery.

Who acts: son, master · What happens: allow, go out, watch, come, grow, help · To what, where: son, work, last, big robbery

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 (son, master), 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	By	by	ADP	_	2 -	case
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 allowed	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 allowed	cc
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 and	punct
5	by	by	SCONJ	_	8 allowed	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 allowed	nsubj:pass
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 allowed	aux:pass
8	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	10 go	mark
10	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 allowed	xcomp
11	out	out	ADV	_	10 go	advmod
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 Bird	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Bird	det
14	Bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 go	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 watch	cc
16	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 go	conj
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 watch	obj
18	at	at	ADP	_	19 work	case
19	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 watch	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 came	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 came	cc
22	at	at	ADP	_	23 last	case
23	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 came	obl
24	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	25 came	expl
25	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 allowed	conj
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 day	det
27	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 came	obl:unmarked
28	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	35 grown	advmod
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 master	nmod:poss
30	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 grown	nsubj
31	though	though	SCONJ	_	35 grown	mark
32	that	that	SCONJ	_	35 grown	mark
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 grown	nsubj
34	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 grown	aux
35	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	25 came	advcl
36	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 grown	xcomp
37	enough	enough	ADV	_	36 clever	advmod
38	to	to	PART	_	39 help	mark
39	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 clever	advcl
40	in	in	ADP	_	43 robbery	case
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 robbery	det
42	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 robbery	amod
43	robbery	robbery	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 help	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 allowed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	allow	past · passive		son				vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
2	go out not said to happen	to-infinitive	son not said here				with the Bird; out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with bird=Co-Agent
3	watch	infinitive	son not said here	son	work			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
4	come	past			last; there	day		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at last=Location
5	grow	past · perfect	son's master				clever property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	help	to-infinitive	son's master not said here		a big robbery			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: 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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