The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 26

Then straightway he sought the town for the best leather, and for a goldsmith to fashion the clasps, and he himself watched till it was done, so that he might learn for himself.

Who acts: straightway · What happens: seek, fashion, watch, do, learn · To what, where: town, clasps, leather

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 (straightway), 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	2 straightway	advmod
2	straightway	straightway	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sought	nsubj
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sought	nsubj
4	sought	seek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 town	det
6	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sought	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	10 leather	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 leather	det
9	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	10 leather	amod
10	leather	leather	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sought	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 goldsmith	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 goldsmith	cc
13	for	for	ADP	_	15 goldsmith	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 goldsmith	det
15	goldsmith	goldsmith	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sought	obl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 fashion	mark
17	fashion	fashion	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 goldsmith	acl
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 clasps	det
19	clasps	clasp	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 fashion	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 watched	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 watched	cc
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 watched	nsubj
23	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	22 he	nmod:unmarked
24	watched	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sought	parataxis
25	till	till	SCONJ	_	28 done	mark
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 done	nsubj:pass
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 done	aux:pass
28	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 watched	advcl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 learn	punct
30	so	so	ADV	_	34 learn	advmod
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 learn	mark
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 learn	nsubj
33	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 learn	aux
34	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 watched	conj
35	for	for	ADP	_	36 himself	case
36	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	34 learn	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	seek	past	straightway	the town	for the best leather; for a goldsmith	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent town=Location for leather=Theme
2	fashion	to-infinitive	straightway not said here	the clasps		vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clasp=Product
3	watch	past	straightway			vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
4	do	past · passive		leather		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
5	learn	might	straightway		for straightway	vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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