The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 116

Then Manawyddan noosed the string about the mouse’s neck, and was about to draw it tight when a bishop, with a great following and horses bearing huge packs, came by.

Who acts: Manawyddan, bishop · What happens: noose, be, draw, follow, bear, come by · To what, where: string, huge packs

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Manawyddan, bishop), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 noosed	advmod
2	Manawyddan	Manawyddan	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 noosed	nsubj
3	noosed	noose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 string	det
5	string	string	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 noosed	obj
6	about	about	ADP	_	10 neck	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 mouse	det
8	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 neck	nmod:poss
9	’s	's	PART	_	8 mouse	case
10	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 noosed	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 about	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 about	cc
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 about	cop
14	about	about	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 noosed	parataxis
15	to	to	PART	_	16 draw	mark
16	draw	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 about	xcomp
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 draw	obj
18	tight	tight	ADV	_	16 draw	advmod
19	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	29 bearing	advmod
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 bishop	det
21	bishop	bishop	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 bearing	nsubj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 following	punct
23	with	with	SCONJ	_	26 following	mark
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 following	det
25	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 following	amod
26	following	follow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 bishop	conj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 horses	cc
28	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 bishop	conj
29	bearing	bear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 draw	advcl
30	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 packs	amod
31	packs	pack	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 bearing	obj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 came	punct
33	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 noosed	conj
34	by	by	ADP	_	33 came	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 noosed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	noose	past	Manawyddan	the string	then	about the mouse's neck	tree rules
2	is	past				about property	tree rules
3	draw	to-infinitive		string		tight property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	follow	gerund	a bishop and horses not said here				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	bear	gerund	a bishop and horses	huge packs			vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pack=Patient
6	come by	past	Manawyddan not said here				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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