The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 16

He was still gazing with horror, when a trumpeter appeared on the walls, and, after blowing a loud blast, announced that the duke would adopt as his heir the man who could drive the French out of the country.

Who acts: Peronnik, trumpeter, duke, man · What happens: gaze, appear, blow, announce, adopt, drive · To what, where: walls, loud blast, French, country · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Peronnik, trumpeter, duke, man), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gazing	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gazing	aux
3	still	still	ADV	_	4 gazing	advmod
4	gazing	gaze	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 horror	case
6	horror	horror	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gazing	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 appeared	punct
8	when	when	SCONJ	_	11 appeared	mark
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 trumpeter	det
10	trumpeter	trumpeter	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 appeared	nsubj
11	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gazing	parataxis
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 walls	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 walls	det
14	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 appeared	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 announced	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 announced	cc
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 and	punct
18	after	after	SCONJ	_	19 blowing	mark
19	blowing	blow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 announced	advcl
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 blast	det
21	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 blast	amod
22	blast	blast	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 blowing	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 blowing	punct
24	announced	announce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 appeared	conj
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 adopt	mark
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 duke	det
27	duke	duke	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 adopt	nsubj
28	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 adopt	aux
29	adopt	adopt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 announced	ccomp
30	as	as	ADP	_	32 heir	case
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 heir	nmod:poss
32	heir	heir	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 adopt	obl
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 man	det
34	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 heir	appos
35	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	37 drive	nsubj
36	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 drive	aux
37	drive	drive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 man	acl:relcl
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 French	det
39	French	French	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 drive	obj
40	out	out	ADP	_	43 country	case
41	of	of	ADP	_	43 country	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 country	det
43	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 drive	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 gazing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gaze	past · progressive	Peronnik			still	with horror	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
2	appear	past	a trumpeter		the walls			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on wall=Location
3	blow	gerund		a loud blast				vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent blast=Patient
4	announce speech: other	past	a trumpeter not said here					vn order-58.3 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	adopt	would	the duke				as Peronnik's heir	vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as heir=Attribute
6	drive	could	the man	the French	the country			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent french=Theme out country=Trajectory

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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