The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 50

It was then that the Breton would begin: ‘Plouhinec is a small town near Hennebonne by the sea,’ and would continue until Kenneth or Effie would interrupt him with an eager question.

Who acts: frost, Plouhinec, Kenneth · What happens: be, continue, interrupt · To what, where: small town, Hennebonne, Plouhinec

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (frost, Plouhinec, Kenneth), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 begin	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 begin	cop
3	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 begin	advmod
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 begin	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Breton	det
6	Breton	Breton	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 begin	nsubj
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 begin	aux
8	begin	begin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	15 town	punct
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	15 town	punct
11	Plouhinec	Plouhinec	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 town	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 town	cop
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 town	det
14	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 town	amod
15	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 begin	obl
16	near	near	ADP	_	17 Hennebonne	case
17	Hennebonne	Hennebonne	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 town	nmod
18	by	by	ADP	_	20 sea	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 sea	det
20	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 begin	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 begin	punct
22	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 begin	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 continue	cc
24	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 continue	aux
25	continue	continue	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 begin	conj
26	until	until	SCONJ	_	31 interrupt	mark
27	Kenneth	Kenneth	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 interrupt	nsubj
28	or	or	CCONJ	_	29 Effie	cc
29	Effie	Effie	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 Kenneth	conj
30	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 interrupt	aux
31	interrupt	interrupt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 continue	xcomp
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 interrupt	obj
33	with	with	ADP	_	36 question	case
34	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 question	det
35	eager	eager	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 question	amod
36	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 interrupt	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 begin	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would · past	frost			then	by the sea; begin property	tree rules
2	is a	present	Plouhinec	a small town	Hennebonne			tree rules
3	continue	would	frost not said here					vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	interrupt	would	Kenneth or Effie	Plouhinec			with a eager question	tree rules

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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