The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 46

He never stopped, nor stayed, nor looked back, and still she kept him in sight; and when he was on the hill she was in the hollow, and when he was in the hollow she was on the hill.

Who acts: use, eagle · What happens: not stop, stay, look back, keep, be · To what, where: use, sight, hill, hollow

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (use, eagle), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 stopped	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 stopped	advmod
3	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 stayed	punct
5	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	6 stayed	cc
6	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 stopped	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 looked	punct
8	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	9 looked	cc
9	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 stayed	conj
10	back	back	ADV	_	9 looked	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 kept	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 kept	cc
13	still	still	ADV	_	15 kept	advmod
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 kept	nsubj
15	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 looked	conj
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 kept	obj
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 sight	case
18	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 kept	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 hill	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 hill	cc
21	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	26 hill	advmod
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 hill	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 hill	cop
24	on	on	ADP	_	26 hill	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 hill	det
26	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stopped	obl
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 hollow	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 hollow	cop
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 hollow	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 hollow	det
31	hollow	hollow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 hill	acl:relcl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 hollow	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 hollow	cc
34	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	39 hollow	advmod
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 hollow	nsubj
36	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 hollow	cop
37	in	in	ADP	_	39 hollow	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 hollow	det
39	hollow	hollow	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 hollow	obl
40	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 hill	nsubj
41	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 hill	cop
42	on	on	ADP	_	44 hill	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 hill	det
44	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 hollow	acl:relcl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 stopped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not stop	past	use					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	stay	past	use not said here					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	look back	past	use not said here					vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	keep	past	eagle	use	sight	still		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme in sight=Location
5	is	past	use		the hill			tree rules
6	is	past	eagle	the hill not said here			hollow property	tree rules
7	is	past	use		the hollow			tree rules
8	is	past	eagle	the hollow not said here	the hill			tree rules

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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