The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 60

They hadn’t been long at work when a tailor came in, and he sat down and began to talk.

Who acts: hammer, tailor · What happens: have, not be, come in, sit down, begin, talk · To what, where: work

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 (hammer, tailor), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 long	advmod
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 long	cop
5	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 had	advmod
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 work	case
7	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obl
8	when	when	SCONJ	_	11 came	mark
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 tailor	det
10	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 came	nsubj
11	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	advcl
12	in	in	ADV	_	11 came	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 sat	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 sat	cc
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 sat	nsubj
16	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	parataxis
17	down	down	ADP	_	16 sat	compound:prt
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 began	cc
19	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 sat	conj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 talk	mark
21	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 began	xcomp
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	hammer	work		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	not is	participle			long property	tree rules
3	come in	past	a tailor			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	sit down	past	tailor			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	begin	past	tailor not said here			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	talk	to-infinitive	tailor not said here			vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: 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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