The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 108

At length, when they had eaten and drunk, Owen prayed the earl to tell him the reason of their grief.

Who acts: peace, Owen · What happens: eat, pray, tell · To what, where: earl, length, reason, Owen · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (peace, Owen), 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	12 prayed	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 length	punct
4	when	when	SCONJ	_	7 eaten	mark
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 eaten	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 eaten	aux
7	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 length	acl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 drunk	cc
9	drunk	drunk	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 eaten	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 length	punct
11	Owen	Owen	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 prayed	nsubj
12	prayed	pray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 earl	det
14	earl	earl	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 prayed	obj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 tell	mark
16	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 prayed	advcl
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 tell	iobj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 reason	det
19	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 tell	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 grief	case
21	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 grief	nmod:poss
22	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 reason	nmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 prayed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	eat	past · perfect	peace				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	pray	past	Owen	the earl		length	tree rules
3	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	Owen not said here	the reason of peace's grief	Owen		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient reason=Topic

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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