The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 65

Maurice was not long getting to the rim of the water.

Who acts: Maurice · What happens: not be, get

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Maurice), 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	Maurice	Maurice	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 long	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 long	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 long	advmod
4	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 long	advcl
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 rim	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 rim	det
8	rim	rim	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 getting	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 water	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 water	det
11	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 rim	nmod
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 long	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	past	Maurice					long property	tree rules
2	get	gerund	Maurice not said here					to the rim of the water result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to rim=Result

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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