The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 67

To this Moti agreed, and the king arose and went out alone by a little door at the back of the Court, and presently came back clasping something closely wrapped up in a cloth under his robe, slipped it into the little box, locked the box, and set it up where all might see.

Who acts: Moti, king, all · What happens: agree, arise, go out, come back, clasp, wrap up · To what, where: back, something, cloth, money, little box, box

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, king, all), 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	To	to	ADP	_	2 this	case
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 Moti	det
3	Moti	Moti	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 agreed	nsubj
4	agreed	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 arose	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 arose	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 king	det
8	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 arose	nsubj
9	arose	arise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 agreed	parataxis
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 went	cc
11	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 arose	conj
12	out	out	ADV	_	11 went	advmod
13	alone	alone	ADV	_	11 went	advmod
14	by	by	ADP	_	17 door	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 door	det
16	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 door	amod
17	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 went	obl
18	at	at	ADP	_	20 back	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 back	det
20	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 went	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 Court	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Court	det
23	Court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 back	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 came	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 came	cc
26	presently	presently	ADV	_	27 came	advmod
27	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 agreed	conj
28	back	back	ADV	_	27 came	advmod
29	clasping	clasp	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 came	advcl
30	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	29 clasping	obj
31	closely	closely	ADV	_	32 wrapped	advmod
32	wrapped	wrap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 something	acl
33	up	up	ADP	_	32 wrapped	compound:prt
34	in	in	ADP	_	36 cloth	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 cloth	det
36	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 clasping	obl
37	under	under	ADP	_	39 robe	case
38	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 robe	nmod:poss
39	robe	robe	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 clasping	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 slipped	punct
41	slipped	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 agreed	parataxis
42	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 slipped	obj
43	into	into	ADP	_	46 box	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 box	det
45	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 box	amod
46	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 slipped	obl
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 locked	punct
48	locked	lock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 slipped	parataxis
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 box	det
50	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 locked	obj
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 set	punct
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 set	cc
53	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	48 locked	conj
54	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 set	obj
55	up	up	ADP	_	53 set	compound:prt
56	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	59 see	advmod
57	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	59 see	nsubj
58	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	59 see	aux
59	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	53 set	advcl
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 agreed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	agree speech: agree	past	this Moti				vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	arise	past	the king				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	go out	past	the king not said here		the back of the Court	by a little door; alone, out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	come back	past	this Moti not said here			presently property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	clasp	gerund	this Moti not said here	something	a cloth	under king's robe	vn hold-15.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Theme
6	wrap up	participle				closely property	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme
7	slip	past		money	the little box		vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent it=Patient
8	lock	past		the box			vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent box=Patient
9	set up	infinitive		money			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient it=Result
10	see	might	all				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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