The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 56

But he wasn’t far gone till she was in sight of him again, leaving her boy behind.

Who acts: sun, stuff · What happens: be, leave · To what, where: boy

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 (sun, stuff), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 gone	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 gone	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 gone	cop
4	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 far	advmod
5	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 gone	advmod
6	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	till	till	ADP	_	11 sight	case
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 sight	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 sight	cop
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 sight	case
11	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gone	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 him	case
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 sight	nmod
14	again	again	ADV	_	6 gone	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 leaving	punct
16	leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 gone	advcl
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 boy	nmod:poss
18	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 leaving	obj
19	behind	behind	ADV	_	16 leaving	advmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	sun		again	far, go property	tree rules
2	is	past	stuff		till sight	of sun	tree rules
3	leave	gerund	sun not said here	stuff's boy		behind property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=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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