The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 93

So matters went on till one evening Denis told Tephany that he really could not stay a moment, as he had promised to go to a dance that was to be held in the next village.

Who acts: Denis · What happens: go on, tell, not stay, promise, go, hold · To what, where: Tephany, dance, next village · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Denis), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
2	matters	matter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 went	aux:pass
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
5	till	till	ADP	_	7 evening	case
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 evening	nummod
7	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
8	Denis	Denis	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 told	nsubj
9	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	parataxis
10	Tephany	Tephany	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 told	iobj
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 stay	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 stay	nsubj
13	really	really	ADV	_	16 stay	advmod
14	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 stay	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 stay	advmod
16	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 told	ccomp
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 moment	det
18	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 stay	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 promised	punct
20	as	as	SCONJ	_	23 promised	mark
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 promised	nsubj
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 promised	aux
23	promised	promise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 stay	advcl
24	to	to	PART	_	25 go	mark
25	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 promised	xcomp
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 dance	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 dance	det
28	dance	dance	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 go	obl
29	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 held	nsubj:pass
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 held	aux:pass
31	to	to	PART	_	33 held	mark
32	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 held	aux:pass
33	held	hold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 dance	acl:relcl
34	in	in	ADP	_	37 village	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 village	det
36	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 village	amod
37	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 held	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	go on	present · passive					evening	vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»
2	tell speech: assert	past	Denis		Tephany			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent tephany=Recipient clause=Topic
3	not stay	could	Denis				moment	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	promise speech: promise	past · perfect	Denis					vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	go not said to happen	to-infinitive	Denis not said here			a dance		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to dance=Initial_Location
6	hold	past · passive	Denis not said here	a dance		the next village		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in village=Location

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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