The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 114

So he sat by the fire, and he did not wait long till he heard steps, and in came Seven Inches with the youngest sister by the hand.

Who acts: dinner · What happens: sit, not wait, hear, come · To what, where: steps, Seven Inches

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac 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 (dinner), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 sat	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sat	nsubj
3	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 fire	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fire	det
6	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sat	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 wait	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 wait	cc
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 wait	nsubj
10	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 wait	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 wait	advmod
12	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 sat	conj
13	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 wait	advmod
14	till	till	SCONJ	_	16 heard	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 heard	nsubj
16	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 wait	advcl
17	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 heard	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 came	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 came	cc
20	in	in	ADP	_	21 came	case
21	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	conj
22	Seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 Inches	nummod
23	Inches	inch	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 came	obj
24	with	with	ADP	_	27 sister	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 sister	det
26	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	27 sister	amod
27	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 came	obl
28	by	by	ADP	_	30 hand	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 hand	det
30	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 came	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	sit	past	dinner		by the fire	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by fire=Location
2	not wait	past · do-support	dinner		long property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	hear	past	dinner	steps		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer step=Stimulus
4	come	past	dinner not said here	Seven Inches	with the youngest sister; by the hand	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location inch=Theme

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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