The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 1

As soon as the lady had departed the fisher’s son awoke, and the dark lad told him of her visit, and how he would never see her as long as he lived.

Who acts: son, dark lad, lad · What happens: depart, awake, tell, not see, live, visit · To what, where: lady, son, lad · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, dark lad, 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	As	as	ADV	_	2 soon	advmod
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 awoke	advmod
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 departed	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 lady	det
5	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 departed	nsubj:pass
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 departed	aux
7	departed	depart	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 soon	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 fisher	det
9	fisher	fisher	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 son	nmod:poss
10	’s	's	PART	_	9 fisher	case
11	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 awoke	nsubj
12	awoke	awake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 told	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 told	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 lad	det
16	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 lad	amod
17	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 told	nsubj
18	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 awoke	conj
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 told	iobj
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 visit	case
21	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 visit	nmod:poss
22	visit	visit	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 told	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 see	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 see	cc
25	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	29 see	advmod
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 see	nsubj
27	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 see	aux
28	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	29 see	advmod
29	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 awoke	conj
30	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 see	obj
31	as	as	ADV	_	32 long	advmod
32	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	29 see	advmod
33	as	as	SCONJ	_	35 lived	mark
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 lived	nsubj
35	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 long	advcl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 awoke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	depart	past · perfect · passive		the lady			vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Initial_Location
2	awake	past	the fisher's son			soon property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	tell speech: assert	past	the dark lad		son	of lad's visit	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
4	not see	would	son	lad		long property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
5	live	past	son				vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	visit		lad				nom visit «act transitive»: poss=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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