The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 48

He jumped up quietly and began to prowl around to see whether anyone seemed to be awake, but, though he managed to arouse a few men and beasts by falling over them, he walked in the shadow of the archways round the whole serai without coming across a likely thief.

Who acts: Moti, anyone · What happens: jump up, begin, prowl around, see, seem, be · To what, where: few men, shadow, likely thief, archways · Speech: someone speaks here

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, anyone), 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	2 jumped	nsubj
2	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 jumped	compound:prt
4	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	2 jumped	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 began	cc
6	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 jumped	conj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 prowl	mark
8	prowl	prowl	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 began	xcomp
9	around	around	ADV	_	8 prowl	advmod
10	to	to	PART	_	11 see	mark
11	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 prowl	advcl
12	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	14 seemed	mark
13	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	14 seemed	nsubj
14	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 see	ccomp
15	to	to	PART	_	17 awake	mark
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 awake	cop
17	awake	awake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 seemed	xcomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 walked	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	37 walked	cc
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 but	punct
21	though	though	SCONJ	_	23 managed	mark
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 managed	nsubj
23	managed	manage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 walked	advcl
24	to	to	PART	_	25 arouse	mark
25	arouse	arouse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 managed	xcomp
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 men	det
27	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 men	amod
28	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 arouse	obj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 beasts	cc
30	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 men	conj
31	by	by	SCONJ	_	32 falling	mark
32	falling	fall	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 arouse	advcl
33	over	over	ADP	_	34 them	case
34	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 falling	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 managed	punct
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 walked	nsubj
37	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 jumped	parataxis
38	in	in	ADP	_	40 shadow	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 shadow	det
40	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 walked	obl
41	of	of	ADP	_	43 archways	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 archways	det
43	archways	archway	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 shadow	nmod
44	round	round	ADP	_	47 serai	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 serai	det
46	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 serai	amod
47	serai	serai	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 walked	obl
48	without	without	SCONJ	_	49 coming	mark
49	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	37 walked	advcl
50	across	across	ADP	_	53 thief	case
51	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	53 thief	det
52	likely	likely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 thief	amod
53	thief	thief	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 coming	obl
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 jumped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	jump up	past	Moti			quietly property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	begin	past	Moti not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	prowl around	to-infinitive	Moti not said here			around property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	see	to-infinitive	Moti not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	seem	past	anyone				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
6	is	to-infinitive	anyone not said here			awake property	tree rules
7	manage	past	Moti				vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
8	arouse	to-infinitive	Moti not said here	a few men and beasts			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus man=Experiencer
9	fall	gerund	Moti not said here			over men = man	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme over they=Location
10	walk	past	Moti		the shadow of the archways	round the whole serai	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in shadow=Trajectory
11	come	gerund	Moti not said here		a likely thief		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme across thief=Initial_Location
12	shadow			the archways			nom shadow «state transitive»: of=patient

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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