The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 44

In one way and another he got along very well until a hot evening when he came to a certain city where he entered the travellers’ ‘serai’ or inn to pass the night.

Who acts: Moti · What happens: get along, come, enter, inn, pass · To what, where: one way, certain city, serai

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Moti), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 way	case
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 way	nummod
3	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 another	cc
5	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	3 way	conj
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 got	nsubj
7	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 way	acl:relcl
8	along	along	ADV	_	7 got	advmod
9	very	very	ADV	_	10 well	advmod
10	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 got	advmod
11	until	until	ADP	_	14 evening	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 evening	det
13	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 evening	amod
14	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 got	obl
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 came	advmod
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 came	nsubj
17	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 got	advcl
18	to	to	ADP	_	21 city	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 city	det
20	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 city	amod
21	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 came	obl
22	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	24 entered	advmod
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 entered	nsubj
24	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 city	acl:relcl
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 travellers	det
26	travellers	traveller	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 serai	nmod:poss
27	’	's	PART	_	26 travellers	case
28	‘	'	PUNCT	_	29 serai	punct
29	serai	serai	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 entered	obj
30	’	'	PUNCT	_	29 serai	punct
31	or	or	CCONJ	_	32 inn	cc
32	inn	inn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 entered	conj
33	to	to	PART	_	34 pass	mark
34	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 inn	xcomp
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 night	det
36	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 pass	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 way	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get along	past	Moti	one way not said here		evening	along, well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer way=Stimulus
2	come	past	Moti		a certain city			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to city=Initial_Location
3	enter	past	Moti	the travellers's serai				vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme serai=Destination
4	inn	infinitive	Moti not said here					tree rules
5	pass	to-infinitive	Moti not said here			night		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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