The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 34

And the black man only looked at them and bade them go and feed.

Who acts: black man · What happens: look, bade, go, feed · To what, where: men

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 (black man), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 looked	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 man	det
3	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 looked	nsubj
5	only	only	ADV	_	6 looked	advmod
6	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 them	case
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 looked	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 bade	cc
10	bade	bade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 looked	conj
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 bade	obj
12	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 bade	xcomp
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 feed	cc
14	feed	feed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 go	conj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	look	past	the black man		at places = place	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at they=Theme
2	bade	past	the black man not said here	men = man		tree rules
3	go	infinitive	the black man not said here			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	feed	infinitive	the black man not said here			vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=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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