The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 17

‘All this time neither the man nor the damsels had spoken one word, but when our dinner was half over, and my hunger was stilled, the man began to ask who I was.

Who acts: dinner, man, I, my · What happens: speak, be, still, begin, ask, hunger · To what, where: man, hunger · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dinner, man, I, my), 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	_	12 spoken	punct
2	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 time	det:predet
3	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 time	det
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 spoken	obl:unmarked
5	neither	neither	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	7 man	cc:preconj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 man	det
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 spoken	nsubj:pass
8	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	10 damsels	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 damsels	det
10	damsels	damsel	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 man	conj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 spoken	aux
12	spoken	speak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 word	nummod
14	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 spoken	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 over	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 over	cc
17	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	22 over	advmod
18	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 dinner	nmod:poss
19	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 over	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 over	cop
21	half	half	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	22 over	advmod
22	over	over	ADV	_	12 spoken	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 stilled	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 stilled	cc
25	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 hunger	nmod:poss
26	hunger	hunger	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 stilled	nsubj:pass
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 stilled	aux:pass
28	stilled	still	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 spoken	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 began	punct
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 man	det
31	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 began	nsubj
32	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 stilled	conj
33	to	to	PART	_	34 ask	mark
34	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 began	xcomp
35	who	who	PRON	PronType=Int	34 ask	ccomp
36	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 who	nsubj
37	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 who	cop
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 spoken	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	past · perfect · passive		the man nor the damsels	time		tree rules
2	is	past	our dinner			half, over property	tree rules
3	still	past · passive		my hunger			vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
4	begin	past	the man				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	ask speech: ask	to-infinitive	the man not said here				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is a	past	I				tree rules
7	hunger		my				nom hunger «state intransitive»: 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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