The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 111

The Black Gallows Bird, who was more accustomed to the business, tucked himself up on the hay and went to sleep, telling the boy to wake him when the merry-makers had departed.

Who acts: Gallows Bird · What happens: accustom, tuck up, go, tell, wake, depart · To what, where: Gallows Bird, Hallowe’en, hay, sleep, boy, merry makers · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Gallows Bird), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Bird	det
2	Black	Black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Gallows	amod
3	Gallows	Gallows	PROPN	Number=Plur	4 Bird	compound
4	Bird	Bird	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 tucked	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 accustomed	punct
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 accustomed	nsubj:pass
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 accustomed	aux:pass
8	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	9 accustomed	advmod
9	accustomed	accustom	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 Bird	acl:relcl
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 business	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 business	det
12	business	business	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 accustomed	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Bird	punct
14	tucked	tuck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	14 tucked	obj
16	up	up	ADP	_	14 tucked	compound:prt
17	on	on	ADP	_	19 hay	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 hay	det
19	hay	hay	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tucked	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 went	cc
21	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 tucked	conj
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 sleep	case
23	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 went	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 telling	punct
25	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 went	advcl
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 boy	det
27	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 telling	obj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 wake	mark
29	wake	wake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 telling	xcomp
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 wake	obj
31	when	when	SCONJ	_	37 departed	mark
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 makers	det
33	merry	merry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 makers	amod
34	-	-	PUNCT	_	33 merry	punct
35	makers	maker	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 departed	nsubj:pass
36	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 departed	aux
37	departed	depart	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 wake	advcl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 tucked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	accustom	past · passive		the Gallows Bird			to the business	tree rules
2	tuck up	past	the Gallows Bird	Hallowe’en = hallowe'en		the hay		vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent himself=Theme on hay=Trajectory
3	go	past	the Gallows Bird not said here			sleep		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to sleep=Initial_Location
4	tell speech: assert	gerund	the Gallows Bird not said here		the boy			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent boy=Recipient clause=Topic
5	wake not said to happen	to-infinitive	the Gallows Bird not said here	Hallowe’en = hallowe'en				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient
6	depart	past · perfect · passive		the merry makers				vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Initial_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 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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