The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 45
Till the close of day Manawyddan waited for him, and when the sun was fast sinking, he went home, thinking that he had strayed far.
Who acts: Manawyddan, sun, Pryderi · What happens: wait, be, go, think, stray · To what, where: fast sinking · Speech: someone speaks here
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, sun, Pryderi), 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 | Till | till | ADP | _ | 3 close | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 close | det |
| 3 | close | close | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 waited | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 day | case |
| 5 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 close | nmod |
| 6 | Manawyddan | Manawyddan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 waited | nsubj |
| 7 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 him | case |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 waited | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 sinking | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 sinking | cc |
| 12 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 sinking | advmod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 sun | det |
| 14 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sinking | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 sinking | cop |
| 16 | fast | fast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 sinking | amod |
| 17 | sinking | sinking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 waited | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 went | punct |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 went | nsubj |
| 20 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 waited | conj |
| 21 | home | home | ADV | _ | 20 went | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 thinking | punct |
| 23 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 went | advcl |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 strayed | mark |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 strayed | nsubj |
| 26 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 strayed | aux |
| 27 | strayed | stray | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 23 thinking | ccomp |
| 28 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 27 strayed | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 waited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | past | Manawyddan | till the close of day | for Pryderi | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | is a | past | the sun | fast sinking | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go | past | Pryderi | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | think speech: other | gerund | Pryderi not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | stray | past · perfect | Pryderi | far property | vn run-51.3.2 «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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