The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 2

Peronnik kept silence at the farm about this adventure, but he understood very well that if he was ever to get to Kerglas he must first catch the colt which knew the way.

Who acts: Peronnik, colt · What happens: keep, understand, be, catch, know · To what, where: silence, farm, Kerglas, colt, way

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Peronnik, colt), 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	Peronnik	Peronnik	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 kept	nsubj
2	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 kept	obj
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 farm	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 farm	det
6	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 kept	obl
7	about	about	ADP	_	9 adventure	case
8	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 adventure	det
9	adventure	adventure	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 farm	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 understood	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 understood	cc
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 understood	nsubj
13	understood	understand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 kept	conj
14	very	very	ADV	_	15 well	advmod
15	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 understood	advmod
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 catch	mark
17	if	if	SCONJ	_	22 get	mark
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 get	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 get	cop
20	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	22 get	advmod
21	to	to	PART	_	22 get	mark
22	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 catch	advcl
23	to	to	ADP	_	24 Kerglas	case
24	Kerglas	Kerglas	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 get	obl
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 catch	nsubj
26	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 catch	aux
27	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	28 catch	advmod
28	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 understood	advcl
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 colt	det
30	colt	colt	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 catch	obj
31	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 knew	nsubj
32	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 colt	acl:relcl
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 way	det
34	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 knew	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 kept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	Peronnik	silence		the farm about this adventure			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent silence=Theme at farm=Location
2	understand	past	Peronnik					well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is a condition, not said to happen	past	Peronnik		Kerglas		ever	get property	tree rules
4	catch	must	Peronnik	the colt				first property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colt=Theme
5	know	past	the colt	the way					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer way=Stimulus

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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