The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 76

‘We have no time to lose--follow me at once,’ and they went on silently and swiftly till they stopped at the door of a small house in which the priest lived.

Who acts: We, senses, priest · What happens: have, lose, follow, go on, stop, live · To what, where: me, door, small house

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 (We, senses, priest), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct
2	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 have	nsubj
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 time	det
5	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 have	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 lose	mark
7	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 time	acl
8	--	--	PUNCT	_	9 follow	punct
9	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 have	conj
10	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 follow	obj
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 once	case
12	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	9 follow	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct
14	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 went	cc
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 went	nsubj
17	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 have	conj
18	on	on	ADV	_	17 went	advmod
19	silently	silently	ADV	_	17 went	advmod
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 swiftly	cc
21	swiftly	swiftly	ADV	_	19 silently	conj
22	till	till	SCONJ	_	24 stopped	mark
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 stopped	nsubj
24	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 went	advcl
25	at	at	ADP	_	27 door	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 door	det
27	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 stopped	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	31 house	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 house	det
30	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 house	amod
31	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 door	nmod
32	in	in	ADP	_	33 which	case
33	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 lived	obl
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 priest	det
35	priest	priest	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 lived	nsubj
36	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 house	acl:relcl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	We			time		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	lose	to-infinitive	We not said here					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	follow	infinitive	We not said here	me				vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent i=Theme at once=Trajectory
4	go on	past	senses = sens				silently property	vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	stop	past	senses = sens		the door of a small house			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at door=Location
6	live	past	the priest		a small house			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in which=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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