The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 105

I saw the young smith get into the carriage, and we never stopped a minute since.’

Who acts: I, young smith, we · What happens: see, get, not stop · To what, where: carriage · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, young smith, we), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 saw	nsubj
2	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 smith	det
4	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 smith	amod
5	smith	smith	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 get	nsubj
6	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 saw	ccomp
7	into	into	ADP	_	9 carriage	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 carriage	det
9	carriage	carriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 get	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 stopped	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 stopped	cc
12	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 stopped	nsubj
13	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	14 stopped	advmod
14	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 saw	conj
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 minute	det
16	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 stopped	obj
17	since	since	ADV	_	14 stopped	advmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 saw	punct
19	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	I				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	get	present	the young smith	the carriage			vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into carriage=Destination
3	not stop	past	we		minute	since property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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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