The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 31
And the young man was glad, for he knew not where to go, and they sat and talked till it grew late.
Who acts: young man, man, birds, stranger · What happens: be, not know, go, sit, talk, grow
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 (young man, man, birds, stranger), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 glad | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 man | det |
| 3 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 man | amod |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 glad | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 glad | cop |
| 6 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 knew | punct |
| 8 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 10 knew | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 knew | nsubj |
| 10 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 glad | conj |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 knew | advmod |
| 12 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 10 knew | obl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 go | mark |
| 14 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 where | advcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 sat | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 sat | cc |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 sat | nsubj |
| 18 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 knew | parataxis |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 talked | cc |
| 20 | talked | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 sat | conj |
| 21 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 23 grew | mark |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 grew | nsubj |
| 23 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 talked | advcl |
| 24 | late | late | ADV | Degree=Pos | 23 grew | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 glad | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the young man | glad property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not know | past | man | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | go | to-infinitive | man not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | sit | past | birds = bird | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | talk | past | birds = bird not said here | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | grow | past | stranger | late property | vn appear-48.1.1 «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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