The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 43

He was afraid to go home and tell the same tale that he had told yesterday; so he searched the wood through and through till night was nearly come.

Who acts: shepherd · What happens: be, go, tell, search, come · To what, where: same tale, yesterday, wood · 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 (shepherd), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 afraid	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 afraid	cop
3	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 go	mark
5	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 afraid	xcomp
6	home	home	ADV	_	5 go	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 tell	cc
8	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 go	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 tale	det
10	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 tale	amod
11	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tell	obj
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 told	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 told	nsubj
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 told	aux
15	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 tell	ccomp
16	yesterday	yesterday	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 told	iobj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 searched	punct
18	so	so	ADV	_	20 searched	advmod
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 searched	nsubj
20	searched	search	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 afraid	conj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 wood	det
22	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 searched	obj
23	through	through	ADV	_	20 searched	advmod
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 come	cc
25	through	through	SCONJ	_	30 come	mark
26	till	till	SCONJ	_	30 come	mark
27	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 come	obl:unmarked
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 come	aux
29	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	30 come	advmod
30	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 searched	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 afraid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	shepherd				afraid property	tree rules
2	go	to-infinitive	shepherd not said here				home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	tell speech: assert	infinitive	shepherd not said here	the same tale				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent tale=Recipient clause=Topic
4	tell speech: assert	past · perfect	shepherd		yesterday			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	search	past	shepherd	the wood			through property	vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent wood=Location
6	come	past	shepherd not said here			night	nearly property	vn escape-51.1-1 «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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