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

Quite certain that they would forget something which they could not do without, Puck waited patiently till they were jogging along in their cart on their return journey, and changed himself into a fly in order to overhear their conversation.

Who acts: shepherds, Puck · What happens: forget, not do, wait, jog, change, overhear · To what, where: something, cart, Puck, order, conversation

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 (shepherds, Puck), 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	Quite	quite	ADV	_	2 certain	advmod
2	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 forget	mark
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 forget	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 forget	aux
6	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 certain	advcl
7	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 forget	obj
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 do	obj
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 do	nsubj
10	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 do	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 do	advmod
12	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 something	acl:relcl
13	without	without	ADP	_	12 do	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 waited	punct
15	Puck	Puck	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 waited	nsubj
16	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 certain	parataxis
17	patiently	patiently	ADV	_	16 waited	advmod
18	till	till	SCONJ	_	21 jogging	mark
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 jogging	nsubj
20	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 jogging	aux
21	jogging	jog	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 waited	advcl
22	along	along	ADV	_	21 jogging	advmod
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 cart	case
24	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 cart	nmod:poss
25	cart	cart	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 jogging	obl
26	on	on	ADP	_	29 journey	case
27	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 journey	nmod:poss
28	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 journey	compound
29	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 jogging	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 changed	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 changed	cc
32	changed	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 certain	parataxis
33	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	32 changed	obj
34	into	into	ADP	_	36 fly	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 fly	det
36	fly	fly	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 changed	obl
37	in	in	ADP	_	38 order	case
38	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 changed	obl
39	to	to	PART	_	40 overhear	mark
40	overhear	overhear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 changed	advcl
41	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 conversation	nmod:poss
42	conversation	conversation	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 overhear	obj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 certain	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	forget	would	shepherds = shepherd	something			tree rules
2	not do	could	shepherds = shepherd				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Eventuality
3	wait	past	Puck			patiently property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	jog	past · progressive	shepherds = shepherd		shepherds's cart	on shepherds's return journey; along property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cart=Trajectory
5	change	past		Puck	order	into a fly result	vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent himself=Patient into fly=Result
6	overhear	to-infinitive		shepherds's conversation			vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer conversation=Stimulus
7	journey		shepherds = shepherd				nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent
8	converse		shepherds = shepherd				nom conversation «communication intransitive»: poss=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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