The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 67

Next evening, at the moment when Denis was accustomed to wait for her in the shadow of the cowhouse, Tephany stuck the pin in her dress, and at the very same instant Barbaik took up her sabots or wooden shoes and went through the orchard and past to the fields, to the plot where the cabbages grew.

Who acts: Tephany, cabbages · What happens: accustom, wait, stick, take up, go, grow · To what, where: Denis, shadow, pin, dress, sabots, same instant Barbaik

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tephany, cabbages), 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	Next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 evening	amod
2	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 stuck	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 moment	punct
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 moment	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 moment	det
6	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 evening	appos
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 accustomed	advmod
8	Denis	Denis	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 accustomed	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 accustomed	aux:pass
10	accustomed	accustom	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 moment	acl:relcl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 wait	mark
12	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 accustomed	xcomp
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 her	case
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 wait	obl
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 shadow	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 shadow	det
17	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 wait	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 cowhouse	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 cowhouse	det
20	cowhouse	cowhouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 shadow	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 evening	punct
22	Tephany	Tephany	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 stuck	nsubj
23	stuck	stick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 pin	det
25	pin	pin	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 stuck	obj
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 dress	case
27	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 dress	nmod:poss
28	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 stuck	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 took	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 took	cc
31	at	at	ADP	_	36 Barbaik	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 Barbaik	det
33	very	very	ADV	_	34 same	advmod
34	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 Barbaik	amod
35	instant	instant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 Barbaik	amod
36	Barbaik	Barbaik	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 took	obl
37	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 stuck	conj
38	up	up	ADP	_	37 took	compound:prt
39	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 sabots	nmod:poss
40	sabots	sabot	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 took	obj
41	or	or	CCONJ	_	43 shoes	cc
42	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 shoes	amod
43	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 sabots	conj
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 went	cc
45	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 took	conj
46	through	through	ADP	_	48 orchard	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 orchard	det
48	orchard	orchard	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 went	obl
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 past	cc
50	past	past	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 orchard	conj
51	to	to	ADP	_	53 fields	case
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 fields	det
53	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 went	obl
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 plot	punct
55	to	to	ADP	_	57 plot	case
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 plot	det
57	plot	plot	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 went	obl
58	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	61 grew	advmod
59	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	60 cabbages	det
60	cabbages	cabbage	NOUN	Number=Plur	61 grew	nsubj
61	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	57 plot	acl:relcl
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 stuck	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	accustom	past · passive		Denis				tree rules
2	wait	to-infinitive			the shadow of the cowhouse		for girl	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in shadow=Location
3	stick	past	Tephany	the pin	girl's dress	evening		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent pin=Theme in dress=Destination
4	take up	past	Tephany not said here	girl's sabots or wooden shoes	the same instant Barbaik			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent sabot=Theme at barbaik=Asset
5	go	past	Tephany not said here		the orchard and past		to the fields; to the plot	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme through orchard=Initial_Location to field=Destination
6	grow	past	the cabbages					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	shadow			the cowhouse				nom shadow «state transitive»: of=patient

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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