The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 92

By and bye the sun rose, and the world began to stir, and stopping at a farmhouse door, he asked for a cup of milk and slice of bread and permission to rest for a while in the porch.

Who acts: sun, world · What happens: rise, begin, stir, stop, ask, rest · To what, where: farmhouse door, porch, bread

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 (sun, world), 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	By	by	SCONJ	_	6 rose	mark
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 rose	cc
3	bye	bye	SCONJ	_	6 rose	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sun	det
5	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rose	nsubj
6	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 asked	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 began	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 began	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 world	det
10	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 began	nsubj
11	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 rose	conj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 stir	mark
13	stir	stir	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 began	xcomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 stopping	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 stopping	cc
16	stopping	stop	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 rose	advcl
17	at	at	ADP	_	20 door	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 door	det
19	farmhouse	farmhouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 door	compound
20	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 stopping	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 rose	punct
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 asked	nsubj
23	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
24	for	for	ADP	_	26 cup	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 cup	det
26	cup	cup	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 asked	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 milk	case
28	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 cup	nmod
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 slice	cc
30	slice	slice	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 milk	conj
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 bread	case
32	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 slice	nmod
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 permission	cc
34	permission	permission	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 milk	conj
35	to	to	PART	_	36 rest	mark
36	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 permission	acl
37	for	for	ADP	_	39 while	case
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 while	det
39	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 rest	obl
40	in	in	ADP	_	42 porch	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 porch	det
42	porch	porch	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 rest	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rise	past	the sun					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	begin	past	the world					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	stir	to-infinitive	the world not said here					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	stop	gerund	the sun not said here		a farmhouse door			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at door=Location
5	ask speech: ask	past	world				for a cup of milk and slice of bread and permission	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	rest	to-infinitive	world not said here		the porch	while		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in porch=Location
7	slice			bread				nom slice «possession transitive»: of=patient

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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