The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 85

At length, when you were away fighting in distant countries, she decided what she would do, and adopted in secret the baby of a poor quarryman, sending a messenger to tell you that you had a son.

Who acts: you, love · What happens: fight, decide, do, adopt, send, tell · To what, where: distant countries, length, baby, secret, messenger, you · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (you, love), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 length	case
2	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 decided	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 length	punct
4	when	when	SCONJ	_	8 fighting	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 fighting	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 fighting	aux
7	away	away	ADV	_	8 fighting	advmod
8	fighting	fight	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 length	acl
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 countries	case
10	distant	distant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 countries	amod
11	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 fighting	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 length	punct
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 decided	nsubj
14	decided	decide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 do	obj
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 do	nsubj
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 do	aux
18	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 decided	ccomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 adopted	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 adopted	cc
21	adopted	adopt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 decided	conj
22	in	in	ADP	_	23 secret	case
23	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 adopted	obl
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 baby	det
25	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 adopted	obj
26	of	of	ADP	_	29 quarryman	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 quarryman	det
28	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 quarryman	amod
29	quarryman	quarryman	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 baby	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 sending	punct
31	sending	send	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 adopted	advcl
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 messenger	det
33	messenger	messenger	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 sending	obj
34	to	to	PART	_	35 tell	mark
35	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 sending	advcl
36	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	35 tell	iobj
37	that	that	SCONJ	_	39 had	mark
38	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	39 had	nsubj
39	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 tell	ccomp
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 son	det
41	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 had	obj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 decided	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	fight	past · progressive	you			distant countries	away property	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	decide	past	love			length		vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	do	would	love					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
4	adopt	participle	love not said here	the baby of a poor quarryman		secret		vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Theme
5	send	gerund	love not said here	a messenger				vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent messenger=Theme
6	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	love not said here		you			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
7	have	past	you	a son				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient

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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