The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 43

It was the first time for long that the two men had come face to face, and they looked at each other in silence.

Who acts: pride, two men, children · What happens: be, come, look · To what, where: first time, face

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pride, two men, children), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 time	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 time	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 time	det
4	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 time	amod
5	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 long	case
7	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 time	amod
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 come	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 men	det
10	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 men	nummod
11	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 come	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 come	aux
13	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 long	advcl
14	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 come	obl
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 face	case
16	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 face	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 looked	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 looked	cc
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 looked	nsubj
20	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 time	parataxis
21	at	at	ADP	_	22 each	case
22	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	20 looked	obl
23	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 each	fixed
24	in	in	ADP	_	25 silence	case
25	silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 looked	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 time	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	pride	the first time		tree rules
2	come	past · perfect	the two men	face to face		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	look	past	children = child		in silence; at each	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at each=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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