The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 78

Well, he sat down as stiff as a ramrod, and was talking in a grand style about the great doings at the castle, while she was getting the tea and toast ready.

Who acts: folk, woman · What happens: sit down, talk, get · To what, where: grand style, tea

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 (folk, woman), 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	Well	well	INTJ	_	4 sat	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Well	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sat	nsubj
4	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	down	down	ADP	_	4 sat	compound:prt
6	as	as	ADV	_	7 stiff	advmod
7	stiff	stiff	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sat	xcomp
8	as	as	ADP	_	10 ramrod	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 ramrod	det
10	ramrod	ramrod	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stiff	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 talking	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 talking	cc
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 talking	aux
14	talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 sat	advcl
15	in	in	ADP	_	18 style	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 style	det
17	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 style	amod
18	style	style	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 talking	obl
19	about	about	ADP	_	22 doings	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 doings	det
21	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 doings	amod
22	doings	doing	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 style	nmod
23	at	at	ADP	_	25 castle	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 castle	det
25	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 talking	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 getting	punct
27	while	while	SCONJ	_	30 getting	mark
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 getting	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 getting	aux
30	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 talking	conj
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 tea	det
32	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 getting	obj
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 toast	cc
34	toast	toast	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 tea	conj
35	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 getting	xcomp
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit down	past	folk			stiff property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	talk	past · progressive	folk not said here		a grand style about the great doings	at the castle	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	get	past · progressive	woman	the tea and toast		ready property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tea=Stimulus

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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