The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 17

On the four sides of the city the trumpeter blew his blast, and the last time Peronnik, who had ridden up as close as he might, answered him.

Who acts: trumpeter, Peronnik · What happens: blow, ride up, answer, blast · To what, where: blast, four sides, Peronnik

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 (trumpeter, Peronnik), 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	On	on	ADP	_	4 sides	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sides	det
3	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 sides	nummod
4	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 blew	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 city	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 city	det
7	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sides	nmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 trumpeter	det
9	trumpeter	trumpeter	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 blew	nsubj
10	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 blast	nmod:poss
12	blast	blast	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 blew	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 answered	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 answered	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 time	det
16	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 time	amod
17	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 answered	obl:unmarked
18	Peronnik	Peronnik	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 time	appos
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 ridden	punct
20	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 ridden	nsubj
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 ridden	aux
22	ridden	ride	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 Peronnik	acl:relcl
23	up	up	ADP	_	22 ridden	compound:prt
24	as	as	ADV	_	25 close	advmod
25	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 ridden	xcomp
26	as	as	SCONJ	_	28 might	mark
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 might	nsubj
28	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 close	advcl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 time	punct
30	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 blew	conj
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 answered	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 blew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blow	past	the trumpeter	trumpeter's blast		the four sides of the city			vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent blast=Patient
2	ride up	past · perfect	Peronnik					close property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
3	answer speech: assert	past	the trumpeter not said here		Peronnik		time		vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality
4	blast		trumpeter						nom blast «act transitive»: poss=agent

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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