The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 38

Then I inquired of him my way, but he grew angry, and, as I perceived, would fain have hindered me; but at the last, after I had told him who I was, his anger passed from him.

Who acts: I, power, anger · What happens: inquire, grow, perceive, fain, hinder, tell · To what, where: way, me, power · 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 (I, power, anger), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 inquired	advmod
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 inquired	nsubj
3	inquired	inquire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 him	case
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 inquired	obl
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 way	nmod:poss
7	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 inquired	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 grew	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 grew	cc
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 grew	nsubj
11	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 inquired	conj
12	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 grew	xcomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 perceived	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 perceived	cc
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 perceived	punct
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 perceived	mark
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 perceived	nsubj
18	perceived	perceive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 grew	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 fain	punct
20	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 fain	aux
21	fain	fain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 perceived	xcomp
22	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 hindered	aux
23	hindered	hinder	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 fain	xcomp
24	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 hindered	obj
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 last	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 last	cc
27	at	at	ADP	_	29 last	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 last	det
29	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 inquired	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 told	punct
31	after	after	SCONJ	_	34 told	mark
32	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 told	nsubj
33	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 told	aux
34	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	29 last	parataxis
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 told	iobj
36	who	who	PRON	PronType=Int	34 told	ccomp
37	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 who	nsubj
38	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 who	cop
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 passed	punct
40	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 anger	nmod:poss
41	anger	anger	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 passed	nsubj
42	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 inquired	parataxis
43	from	from	ADP	_	44 him	case
44	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 passed	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 inquired	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	inquire speech: other	past	I	my way		then	of power	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent way=Recipient
2	grow	past	power				angry property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	perceive	past	I					vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	fain	would	I not said here					tree rules
5	hinder	infinitive · perfect	I not said here	me				vn discourage-64.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer i=Eventuality
6	tell speech: assert	past · perfect	I		power			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
7	is a	past	I					tree rules
8	pass	past	power's anger				from power	vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from he=Initial_Location
9	anger		power					nom anger «feeling 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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