The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 86

When the rest of the tribe saw this they pressed close, keeping their backs towards the piercing wind, but Guddhu told them they must go to the other side, as he wanted the wind to fan his fire.

Who acts: rest, signs, Guddhu, wind · What happens: see, press, keep, tell, go, want · To what, where: this, backs, signs, other side, wind, fire · 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 (rest, signs, Guddhu, wind), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 saw	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 rest	det
3	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 saw	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 tribe	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 tribe	det
6	tribe	tribe	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rest	nmod
7	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 pressed	advcl
8	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 saw	obj
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 pressed	nsubj
10	pressed	press	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	close	close	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 pressed	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 keeping	punct
13	keeping	keep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 pressed	advcl
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 backs	nmod:poss
15	backs	back	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 keeping	obj
16	towards	towards	ADP	_	19 wind	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 wind	det
18	piercing	piercing	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 wind	compound
19	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 keeping	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 told	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 told	cc
22	Guddhu	Guddhu	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 told	nsubj
23	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 pressed	conj
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 told	iobj
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 go	nsubj
26	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 go	aux
27	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 told	ccomp
28	to	to	ADP	_	31 side	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 side	det
30	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 side	amod
31	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 go	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 wanted	punct
33	as	as	SCONJ	_	35 wanted	mark
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 wanted	nsubj
35	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 told	conj
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 wind	det
37	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 wanted	obj
38	to	to	PART	_	39 fan	mark
39	fan	fan	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 wanted	xcomp
40	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 fire	nmod:poss
41	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 fan	obj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 pressed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	past	the rest of the tribe	this				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus
2	press	past	signs = sign				close property	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
3	keep	gerund	signs = sign not said here	signs's backs			towards the piercing wind	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent back=Theme
4	tell speech: assert	past	Guddhu		signs = sign			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
5	go	must	signs = sign			the other side		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to side=Initial_Location
6	want	past	Guddhu	the wind				tree rules
7	fan not said to happen	to-infinitive	the wind not said here	Guddhu's fire				tree rules
8	fire		Guddhu					nom fire «event 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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