The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 50

‘So I bade the black man farewell, and took my way to the top of the wood, and there I found everything just as I had been told.

Who acts: I · What happens: bade, take, find, tell · To what, where: black man, way, top, everything, I · 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), 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	_	4 bade	punct
2	So	so	ADV	_	4 bade	advmod
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 bade	nsubj
4	bade	bade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 man	det
6	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 man	amod
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bade	obj
8	farewell	farewell	ADV	_	4 bade	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 took	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 took	cc
11	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 bade	parataxis
12	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 way	nmod:poss
13	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 took	obj
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 top	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 top	det
16	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 took	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 wood	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 wood	det
19	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 top	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 found	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 found	cc
22	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 found	advmod
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 found	nsubj
24	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 took	conj
25	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	24 found	obj
26	just	just	ADV	_	31 told	advmod
27	as	as	SCONJ	_	31 told	mark
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 told	nsubj:pass
29	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 told	aux
30	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	31 told	aux:pass
31	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 found	advcl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 bade	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	bade	past	I	the black man		farewell property	tree rules
2	take	past		my way	the top of the wood		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent way=Theme to top=Destination
3	find	past	I	everything	there		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Topic
4	tell speech: assert	past · perfect · passive		I			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient

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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