The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 11

Unluckily the young man guessed what she was doing, and signed to his attendants, who seized her and put her in the coach.

Who acts: young man, Denis, attendants · What happens: guess, do, sign, seize, put · To what, where: attendants, Denis, coach

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young man, Denis, attendants), 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	Unluckily	unluckily	ADV	_	5 guessed	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 man	det
3	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 guessed	nsubj
5	guessed	guess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 guessed	obj
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 doing	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 doing	aux
9	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 what	acl:relcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 signed	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 signed	cc
12	signed	sign	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 guessed	conj
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 attendants	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 attendants	nmod:poss
15	attendants	attendant	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 signed	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 seized	punct
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 seized	nsubj
18	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 attendants	acl:relcl
19	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 seized	obj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 put	cc
21	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 seized	conj
22	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 put	obj
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 coach	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 coach	det
25	coach	coach	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 put	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 guessed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	guess	past	the young man				unluckily property	vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme
2	do	past · progressive	Denis					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	sign	past	the young man not said here		man's attendants			vn instr_communication-37.4.1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent to attendant=Recipient
4	seize	past	man's attendants	Denis				vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
5	put	past	man's attendants not said here	Denis		the coach		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme in coach=Destination

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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