The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 10

Little did he guess that on top of the battlements, exactly over his head, stood a man who was taking his last look at the same sun, before going to his death that awaited him.

Who acts: sun, man, death · What happens: guess, stand, take, go, await, die · To what, where: that, top, man, last look, same sun, death

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun, man, death), 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	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 guess	ccomp
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 guess	aux
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 guess	nsubj
4	guess	guess	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 guess	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	7 top	case
7	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 guess	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 battlements	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 battlements	det
10	battlements	battlement	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 top	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 head	punct
12	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	15 head	advmod
13	over	over	ADP	_	15 head	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 head	nmod:poss
15	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 guess	parataxis
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 stood	punct
17	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 guess	parataxis
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 man	det
19	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 stood	obj
20	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 taking	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 taking	aux
22	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 man	acl:relcl
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 look	nmod:poss
24	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 look	amod
25	look	look	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 taking	obj
26	at	at	ADP	_	29 sun	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 sun	det
28	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 sun	amod
29	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 taking	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 going	punct
31	before	before	SCONJ	_	32 going	mark
32	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 stood	advcl
33	to	to	ADP	_	35 death	case
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 death	nmod:poss
35	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 going	obl
36	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	37 awaited	nsubj
37	awaited	await	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 death	acl:relcl
38	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 awaited	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 guess	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	guess	past · do-support	sun	that	top of the battlements	vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme
2	stand	past		a man		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus
3	take	past · progressive	a man	sun's last look	the same sun	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent look=Theme at sun=Asset
4	go	gerund			sun's death	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to death=Initial_Location
5	await	past	sun's death	sun		tree rules
6	die		sun			nom death «event intransitive»: 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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