The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 105

Then he awoke, and the dark lad told him what had befallen him, and he was very grieved.

Who acts: robber, dark lad · What happens: awake, tell, befall, grieve · To what, where: robber · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (robber, dark lad), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 awoke	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 awoke	nsubj
3	awoke	awake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 told	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 told	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 lad	det
7	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 lad	amod
8	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 told	nsubj
9	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 awoke	conj
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 told	iobj
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 befallen	nsubj:pass
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 befallen	aux
13	befallen	befall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 told	ccomp
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 befallen	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 grieved	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 grieved	cc
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 grieved	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 grieved	aux:pass
19	very	very	ADV	_	20 grieved	advmod
20	grieved	grieve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 awoke	conj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 awoke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	awake	past	robber			then	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	past	the dark lad		robber		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
3	befall	past · perfect · passive		robber			tree rules
4	grieve	past · passive		robber			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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