The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 54

The fourteenth night had come, and in despair the prisoner went out to take his last walk through the city.

Who acts: fourteenth night, prisoner · What happens: come, go out, take, walk · To what, where: despair, last walk, city

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fourteenth night, prisoner), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 night	det
2	fourteenth	fourteenth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 night	amod
3	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 come	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 come	aux
5	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 went	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 went	cc
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 despair	case
9	despair	despair	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 went	obl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 prisoner	det
11	prisoner	prisoner	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 went	nsubj
12	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 come	conj
13	out	out	ADV	_	12 went	advmod
14	to	to	PART	_	15 take	mark
15	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 went	advcl
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 walk	nmod:poss
17	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 walk	amod
18	walk	walk	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 take	obj
19	through	through	ADP	_	21 city	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 city	det
21	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 take	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past · perfect	the fourteenth night				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go out	past	the prisoner		despair	out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	take	to-infinitive	the prisoner not said here	prisoner's last walk	the city		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent walk=Theme
4	walk		prisoner				nom walk «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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