The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 52

Off the poor man went, and by the time the troops of Moti’s side had come up and arranged themselves to look as formidable as possible, he returned with his king.

Who acts: troops, Moti · What happens: go, come up, arrange, look, return · To what, where: troops

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 (troops, 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	Off	off	ADP	_	4 man	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 man	det
3	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	obl
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 come	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 come	cc
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 time	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 time	det
10	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 come	obl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 troops	det
12	troops	troops	NOUN	Number=Ptan	18 come	nsubj
13	of	of	ADP	_	16 side	case
14	Moti	Moti	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 side	nmod:poss
15	’s	's	PART	_	14 Moti	case
16	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 troops	nmod
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 come	aux
18	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 went	parataxis
19	up	up	ADV	_	18 come	advmod
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 arranged	cc
21	arranged	arrange	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 went	conj
22	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	21 arranged	obj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 look	mark
24	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 arranged	advcl
25	as	as	ADV	_	26 formidable	advmod
26	formidable	formidable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 look	xcomp
27	as	as	SCONJ	_	28 possible	mark
28	possible	possible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 formidable	advcl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 returned	punct
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 returned	nsubj
31	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 went	conj
32	with	with	ADP	_	34 king	case
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 king	nmod:poss
34	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 returned	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	go	past				off the poor man	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme off man=Initial_Location
2	come up	past · perfect	the troops of Moti's side		time		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	arrange	past		troops			vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Product
4	look	to-infinitive				formidable property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
5	return	past	Moti			with Moti's king	vn escape-51.1-1 «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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