The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 95

Men gathered in groups talking and exclaiming, and finding fault with the innkeeper for allowing such a dangerous beast into the serai, and all the while the innkeeper was just as troubled as the rest, and none dared go near the place where the tiger stood blinking miserably on everyone, and where Moti lay stretched out snoring like thunder.

Who acts: Men, groups, innkeeper, none, tiger · What happens: gather, talk, exclaim, find, allow, be · To what, where: groups, fault, dangerous beast, serai, place, everyone

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 (Men, groups, innkeeper, none), 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	Men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 gathered	nsubj
2	gathered	gather	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 groups	case
4	groups	group	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 gathered	obl
5	talking	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 groups	acl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 exclaiming	cc
7	exclaiming	exclaim	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 talking	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 finding	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 finding	cc
10	finding	find	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 talking	conj
11	fault	fault	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 finding	obj
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 innkeeper	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 innkeeper	det
14	innkeeper	innkeeper	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 finding	obl
15	for	for	SCONJ	_	16 allowing	mark
16	allowing	allow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 finding	advcl
17	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	20 beast	det:predet
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 beast	det
19	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 beast	amod
20	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 allowing	obj
21	into	into	ADP	_	23 serai	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 serai	det
23	serai	serai	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 allowing	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 troubled	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 troubled	cc
26	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	27 the	det:predet
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 troubled	det
28	while	while	SCONJ	_	34 troubled	mark
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 innkeeper	det
30	innkeeper	innkeeper	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 troubled	nsubj
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 troubled	cop
32	just	just	ADV	_	34 troubled	advmod
33	as	as	ADV	_	34 troubled	advmod
34	troubled	troubled	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 gathered	conj
35	as	as	ADP	_	37 rest	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 rest	det
37	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 troubled	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 dared	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 dared	cc
40	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	41 dared	nsubj
41	dared	dare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 gathered	parataxis
42	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 dared	xcomp
43	near	near	ADP	_	45 place	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 place	det
45	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 go	obl
46	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	49 stood	advmod
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 tiger	det
48	tiger	tiger	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 stood	nsubj
49	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 place	acl:relcl
50	blinking	blink	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	49 stood	xcomp
51	miserably	miserably	ADV	_	50 blinking	advmod
52	on	on	ADP	_	53 everyone	case
53	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	50 blinking	obl
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 stretched	punct
55	and	and	CCONJ	_	59 stretched	cc
56	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	58 lay	advmod
57	Moti	Moti	PROPN	Number=Sing	58 lay	nsubj
58	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	59 stretched	aux:pass
59	stretched	stretch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	41 dared	conj
60	out	out	ADP	_	59 stretched	compound:prt
61	snoring	snore	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	59 stretched	advcl
62	like	like	ADP	_	63 thunder	case
63	thunder	thunder	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 snoring	obl
64	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 gathered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	gather	past	Men		groups		vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent
2	talk	gerund	groups not said here				vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	exclaim speech: express	gerund	groups not said here				vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
4	find	gerund	groups not said here	fault		with the innkeeper	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fault=Topic
5	allow	gerund	groups not said here	such dangerous beast	the serai		vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beast=Beneficiary
6	is	past	the innkeeper			as the rest; troubled property	tree rules
7	dare	past	none				vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	go	infinitive	none not said here		the place		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme near place=Location
9	stand	past	the tiger				vn admire-31.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
10	blink	gerund	the tiger not said here		everyone	miserably property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on everyone=Location
11	stretch out	past · passive	none not said here				vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»
12	snore	gerund	none not said here			like thunder	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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