The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 39

‘Well, but it didn’t fall,’ replied the young man, and he went off to the kitchen to get some supper, leaving them to cry as long as they liked.

Who acts: saddle, man, kitchen · What happens: not fall, reply, go off, get, leave, cry · To what, where: young man, supper, kitchen

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (saddle, man, kitchen), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	8 fall	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	8 fall	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 fall	cc
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 fall	nsubj
6	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 fall	aux
7	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 fall	advmod
8	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 replied	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	11 replied	punct
11	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 fall	parataxis
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 man	det
13	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 man	amod
14	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 replied	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 went	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 went	cc
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 went	nsubj
18	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 fall	conj
19	off	off	ADP	_	18 went	compound:prt
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 kitchen	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 kitchen	det
22	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 went	obl
23	to	to	PART	_	24 get	mark
24	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 went	advcl
25	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	26 supper	det
26	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 get	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 leaving	punct
28	leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 get	advcl
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 leaving	obj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 cry	mark
31	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 leaving	xcomp
32	as	as	ADV	_	33 long	advmod
33	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	31 cry	advmod
34	as	as	SCONJ	_	36 liked	mark
35	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 liked	nsubj
36	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 long	advcl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 fall	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not fall	past · do-support	saddle			vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	reply speech: assert	past		the young man		vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent man=Topic
3	go off	past	man		to the kitchen	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme
4	get	to-infinitive	man not said here	some supper		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer supper=Stimulus
5	leave	gerund	man not said here	kitchen		tree rules
6	cry speech: express	to-infinitive	kitchen not said here		long property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	like	past	kitchen			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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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