The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 86

Now it was seven years since Manawyddan had seen man or beast in that place, and the sight amazed him.

Who acts: scholar, Manawyddan, sight · What happens: be, see, amaze · To what, where: seven years, man, place

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 (scholar, Manawyddan, sight), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 years	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 years	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 years	cop
4	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 years	nummod
5	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 seen	obl
6	since	since	SCONJ	_	9 seen	mark
7	Manawyddan	Manawyddan	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 seen	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 seen	aux
9	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
10	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 seen	obj
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 beast	cc
12	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 man	conj
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 place	case
14	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 place	det
15	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 seen	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 amazed	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 amazed	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 sight	det
19	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 amazed	nsubj
20	amazed	amaze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 seen	conj
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 amazed	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 seen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	is a	past	scholar	seven years		now	tree rules
2	see	past · perfect	Manawyddan	man or beast	that place		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus
3	amaze	past	the sight	man			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer

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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