The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 1

By this time the cattle were all tied up again, but as the people could not find their nuts they sat round the fire and began to tell stories.

Who acts: nuts · What happens: tie up, not find, sit, begin, tell · To what, where: cattle, stories · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nuts), 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	By	by	ADP	_	3 time	case
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 time	det
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tied	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cattle	det
5	cattle	cattle	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 tied	nsubj:pass
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 tied	aux:pass
7	all	all	ADV	_	8 tied	advmod
8	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	up	up	ADP	_	8 tied	compound:prt
10	again	again	ADV	_	8 tied	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 find	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 find	cc
13	as	as	ADP	_	15 people	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 people	det
15	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 find	obl
16	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 find	aux
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 find	advmod
18	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 tied	advcl
19	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 nuts	nmod:poss
20	nuts	nut	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 sat	nsubj
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 sat	nsubj
22	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 find	ccomp
23	round	round	ADP	_	25 fire	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 fire	det
25	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 sat	obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 began	cc
27	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 sat	conj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 tell	mark
29	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 began	xcomp
30	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 tell	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 tied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	tie up	past · passive		the cattle	again; time	all property	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	not find	could				as the people	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	sit	past	cattle's nuts			round the fire	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	begin	past	cattle's nuts not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	cattle's nuts not said here	stories			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient

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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