The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 72

‘I will gladly remain and shoot the deer for you,’ replied the youth, and that night he hid himself and watched till the deer came to the cornfield; then he lifted his gun to his shoulder and was just going to pull the trigger, when, behold! instead of a deer, a woman with long black hair was standing there.

Who acts: I, youth, deer, long black hair · What happens: remain, shoot, reply, hide, watch, come · To what, where: deer, youth, cornfield, gun, shoulder, trigger

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 (I, youth, deer, long black hair), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	5 remain	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 remain	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 remain	aux
4	gladly	gladly	ADV	_	5 remain	advmod
5	remain	remain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 shoot	cc
7	shoot	shoot	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 remain	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 deer	det
9	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 shoot	obj
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 you	case
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 shoot	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 replied	punct
13	’	'	PUNCT	_	14 replied	punct
14	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 remain	parataxis
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 youth	det
16	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 replied	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 hid	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 hid	cc
19	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 night	det
20	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 hid	obl:unmarked
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 hid	nsubj
22	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 replied	advcl
23	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	22 hid	obj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 watched	cc
25	watched	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 hid	conj
26	till	till	SCONJ	_	29 came	mark
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 deer	det
28	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 came	nsubj
29	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 watched	advcl
30	to	to	ADP	_	32 cornfield	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 cornfield	det
32	cornfield	cornfield	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 came	obl
33	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 lifted	punct
34	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	36 lifted	advmod
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 lifted	nsubj
36	lifted	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 remain	parataxis
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 gun	nmod:poss
38	gun	gun	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 lifted	obj
39	to	to	ADP	_	41 shoulder	case
40	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 shoulder	nmod:poss
41	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 lifted	obl
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 going	cc
43	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 going	aux
44	just	just	ADV	_	45 going	advmod
45	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	36 lifted	conj
46	to	to	PART	_	47 pull	mark
47	pull	pull	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 going	xcomp
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 trigger	det
49	trigger	trigger	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 pull	obj
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 when	punct
51	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	45 going	advmod
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 behold	punct
53	behold	behold	INTJ	_	45 going	discourse
54	!	!	PUNCT	_	45 going	punct
55	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	58 deer	case
56	of	of	ADP	_	55 instead	fixed
57	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	58 deer	det
58	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 going	obl
59	,	,	PUNCT	_	61 woman	punct
60	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	61 woman	det
61	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 deer	appos
62	with	with	SCONJ	_	67 standing	mark
63	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	65 hair	amod
64	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	65 hair	amod
65	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	67 standing	nsubj
66	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	67 standing	aux
67	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	61 woman	acl
68	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	67 standing	advmod
69	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 remain	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remain	future	I				gladly property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	shoot	infinitive	I not said here	the deer			for you	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deer=Theme
3	reply speech: assert	past		the youth				vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent youth=Topic
4	hide	past	youth	youth		night		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient
5	watch	past	youth not said here					vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
6	come	past	the deer		the cornfield			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to cornfield=Initial_Location
7	lift	past	youth	youth's gun	youth's shoulder	then		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent gun=Theme to shoulder=Destination
8	go	past · progressive	youth not said here				instead a deer	vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
9	pull	to-infinitive	youth not said here	the trigger				vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trigger=Theme
10	stand	past · progressive	long black hair	a woman not said here	there			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer woman=Stimulus

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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