The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 99

Then was the turn of the third man, and his foot remained fastened to the floor, till the girl unloosed it.

Who acts: girl · What happens: be, fasten, unloose · To what, where: turn, foot, floor

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 turn	advmod
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 turn	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 turn	det
4	turn	turn	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 man	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 man	det
7	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 man	amod
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turn	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 fastened	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 fastened	cc
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 foot	nmod:poss
12	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 fastened	nsubj:pass
13	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 fastened	aux:pass
14	fastened	fasten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 turn	parataxis
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 floor	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 floor	det
17	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 fastened	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 unloosed	punct
19	till	till	SCONJ	_	22 unloosed	mark
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 girl	det
21	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 unloosed	nsubj
22	unloosed	unloose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 fastened	conj
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 unloosed	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 turn	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the turn	then	of the third man	tree rules
2	fasten	past · passive		shoemaker's foot		to the floor	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Patient to floor=Co-Patient
3	unloose	past	the girl	floor			tree rules

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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