The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 47

As her brother listened, he would fain have left the house and hidden himself in the forest, but it was his duty to wave the fan of peacock’s feathers over the king’s head to keep off the flies, and he knew he would be seized by the royal guards if he tried to desert his post.

Who acts: brother, house, royal guards · What happens: listen, leave, hide, be, wave, keep off · To what, where: house, brother, forest, duty, fan, head · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brother, house, royal guards), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	4 listened	mark
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 brother	nmod:poss
3	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 listened	nsubj
4	listened	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 left	advcl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 listened	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 left	nsubj
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 left	aux
8	fain	fain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 would	xcomp
9	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 left	aux
10	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 house	det
12	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 left	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 hidden	cc
14	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 left	conj
15	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	14 hidden	obj
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 forest	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 forest	det
18	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 hidden	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 duty	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 duty	cc
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 duty	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 duty	cop
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 duty	nmod:poss
24	duty	duty	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 left	parataxis
25	to	to	PART	_	26 wave	mark
26	wave	wave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 duty	acl
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 fan	det
28	fan	fan	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 wave	obj
29	of	of	ADP	_	32 feathers	case
30	peacock	peacock	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 feathers	nmod:poss
31	’s	's	PART	_	30 peacock	case
32	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 fan	nmod
33	over	over	ADP	_	37 head	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 king	det
35	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 head	nmod:poss
36	’s	's	PART	_	35 king	case
37	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 wave	obl
38	to	to	PART	_	39 keep	mark
39	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 wave	advcl
40	off	off	ADP	_	39 keep	compound:prt
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 flies	det
42	flies	fly	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 keep	obj
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 knew	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 knew	cc
45	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 knew	nsubj
46	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 left	parataxis
47	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 seized	nsubj
48	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	50 seized	aux
49	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	50 seized	aux:pass
50	seized	seize	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	46 knew	ccomp
51	by	by	ADP	_	54 guards	case
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 guards	det
53	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 guards	amod
54	guards	guard	NOUN	Number=Plur	50 seized	obl
55	if	if	SCONJ	_	57 tried	mark
56	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	57 tried	nsubj
57	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 seized	advcl
58	to	to	PART	_	59 desert	mark
59	desert	desert	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	57 tried	xcomp
60	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	61 post	nmod:poss
61	post	post	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 desert	obj
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 left	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	listen	past	am's brother			vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
2	leave	would · perfect	brother	the house		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme
3	hide	participle	brother not said here	brother	the forest	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent himself=Patient in forest=Location
4	is a	past	house	brother's duty		tree rules
5	wave	to-infinitive	brother not said here	the fan of peacock's feathers	the king's head	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fan=Patient
6	keep off	to-infinitive	brother not said here	the flies		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fly=Theme
7	know	past	brother			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
8	seize	would · passive	the royal guards	brother		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
9	try a condition, not said to happen	past	brother			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
10	desert not said to happen	to-infinitive	brother not said here	brother's post		vn leave-51.2-1 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Theme post=Source

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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