The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 58

He never stopped, and she never stopped, and as the sun was setting he turned up another lane, and there they found their little daughter.

Who acts: sun, stuff, shadows · What happens: not stop, set, turn up, find · To what, where: lane, little daughter

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, shadows), 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	_	8 stopped	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 stopped	cc
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 stopped	nsubj
7	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	8 stopped	advmod
8	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 stopped	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 setting	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 setting	cc
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	15 setting	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 sun	det
13	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 setting	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 setting	aux
15	setting	set	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 stopped	advcl
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 turned	nsubj
17	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 setting	ccomp
18	up	up	ADP	_	17 turned	compound:prt
19	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	20 lane	det
20	lane	lane	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 turned	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 found	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 found	cc
23	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	25 found	expl
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 found	nsubj
25	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 stopped	conj
26	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 daughter	nmod:poss
27	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 daughter	amod
28	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 found	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 stopped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	not stop	past	sun			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	not stop	past	stuff			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	set	past · progressive	the sun			tree rules
4	turn up	past	sun	another lane		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location lane=Theme
5	find	past	shadows = shadow	shadows's little daughter	there	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Topic

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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