The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 103

At length, when he was so tired he could hardly move, the giant’s youngest daughter stood in the doorway.

Who acts: youth, youngest daughter · What happens: be, move, stand · To what, where: length

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth, youngest daughter), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 length	case
2	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 stood	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 length	punct
4	when	when	SCONJ	_	8 tired	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 tired	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 tired	cop
7	so	so	ADV	_	8 tired	advmod
8	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 length	advcl
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 move	nsubj
10	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 move	aux
11	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	12 move	advmod
12	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 tired	ccomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 length	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 giant	det
15	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 daughter	nmod:poss
16	’s	's	PART	_	15 giant	case
17	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	18 daughter	amod
18	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 stood	nsubj
19	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 doorway	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 doorway	det
22	doorway	doorway	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 stood	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	youth		tired property	tree rules
2	move	could	youth		hardly property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
3	stand	past	the giant's youngest daughter	length	in the doorway	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at length=Location

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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