The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 3

Pleased and excited the six elder sisters at once followed the boy, but the youngest, who was busy, and who did not care about strangers, stayed behind, to finish the work she was doing.

Who acts: youngest, chief · What happens: please, follow, be, not care, stay, finish · To what, where: boy, work

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youngest, chief), 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	Pleased	please	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 busy	advcl
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 excited	cc
3	excited	excited	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Pleased	xcomp
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sisters	det
5	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 sisters	nummod
6	elder	elder	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sisters	compound
7	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 excited	nsubj
8	at	at	SCONJ	_	10 followed	mark
9	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	10 followed	advmod
10	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Pleased	advcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 boy	det
12	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 followed	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 busy	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 busy	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 youngest	det
16	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	20 busy	nsubj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 busy	punct
18	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 busy	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 busy	cop
20	busy	busy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 care	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 care	cc
23	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 care	nsubj
24	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 care	aux
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 care	advmod
26	care	care	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 busy	parataxis
27	about	about	ADP	_	28 strangers	case
28	strangers	stranger	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 care	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 stayed	punct
30	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 care	conj
31	behind	behind	ADV	_	30 stayed	advmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 finish	punct
33	to	to	PART	_	34 finish	mark
34	finish	finish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 care	advcl
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 work	det
36	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 finish	obj
37	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 doing	nsubj
38	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 doing	aux
39	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	34 finish	ccomp
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 busy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	please	participle	the youngest not said here		excited property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	follow	past	the youngest not said here	the boy	once property	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Theme
3	is	past	the youngest		busy property	tree rules
4	not care	past · do-support			about strangers	vn care-88.1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus what S»: agent=Experiencer about stranger=Stimulus
5	stay	past			behind property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	finish	to-infinitive		the work		tree rules
7	do	past · progressive	chief			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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