The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 112

Houarn paid the boatman and sent him away, and then proceeded to walk round the lake.

Who acts: Houarn · What happens: pay, send away, proceed, walk · To what, where: boatman, lake

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 (Houarn), 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	Houarn	Houarn	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 paid	nsubj
2	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 boatman	det
4	boatman	boatman	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 paid	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 sent	cc
6	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 paid	conj
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sent	obj
8	away	away	ADV	_	6 sent	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 proceeded	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 proceeded	cc
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 proceeded	advmod
12	proceeded	proceed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 paid	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 walk	mark
14	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 proceeded	xcomp
15	round	round	ADP	_	17 lake	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 lake	det
17	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 walk	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 paid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	past	Houarn	the boatman				vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boatman=Asset
2	send away	past	Houarn not said here	boatman			away property	vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	proceed	past	Houarn not said here			then		vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	walk	to-infinitive	Houarn not said here		the lake			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round lake=Trajectory

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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