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The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 22

He was tired with a long day’s work, and stood with his hand on the mane of one of the animals, waiting till they had done, and thinking all the while of Barbaik, when a voice came out of the gorse close by.

Who acts: Jegu, animals, voice, long day · What happens: be, stand, wait, do, think, come out · To what, where: mane, gorse

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jegu, animals, voice, long day), 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

nsubjcopcasedetamodnmod:posscaseoblpunctccconjcasenmod:possoblcasedetoblcasenmodcasedetnmodpunctadvclmarknsubjauxadvclpunctccadvcldet:predetdetoblcasenmodpunctmarkdetnsubjparataxiscasecasedetoblamodfixedpunctrootHePRONwasAUXtiredADJwithADPaDETlongADJdayNOUN’sPARTworkNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJstoodVERBwithADPhisPRONhandNOUNonADPtheDETmaneNOUNofADPoneNUMofADPtheDETanimalsNOUN,PUNCTwaitingVERBtillSCONJtheyPRONhadAUXdoneVERB,PUNCTandCCONJthinkingVERBallDETtheDETwhileNOUNofADPBarbaikPROPN,PUNCTwhenSCONJaDETvoiceNOUNcameVERBoutADPofADPtheDETgorseNOUNcloseADJbyADP.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1HehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs3 tirednsubj
2wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 tiredcop
3tiredtiredADJDegree=Posrootroot
4withwithADP_9 workcase
5aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art7 daydet
6longlongADJDegree=Pos7 dayamod
7daydayNOUNNumber=Sing9 worknmod:poss
8’s'sPART_7 daycase
9workworkNOUNNumber=Sing3 tiredobl
10,,PUNCT_12 stoodpunct
11andandCCONJ_12 stoodcc
12stoodstandVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 tiredconj
13withwithADP_15 handcase
14hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs15 handnmod:poss
15handhandNOUNNumber=Sing12 stoodobl
16ononADP_18 manecase
17thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art18 manedet
18manemaneNOUNNumber=Sing12 stoodobl
19ofofADP_20 onecase
20oneoneNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card18 manenmod
21ofofADP_23 animalscase
22thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art23 animalsdet
23animalsanimalNOUNNumber=Plur20 onenmod
24,,PUNCT_25 waitingpunct
25waitingwaitVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part12 stoodadvcl
26tilltillSCONJ_29 donemark
27theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs29 donensubj
28hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin29 doneaux
29donedoVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part25 waitingadvcl
30,,PUNCT_32 thinkingpunct
31andandCCONJ_32 thinkingcc
32thinkingthinkVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part12 stoodadvcl
33allallDETPronType=Tot35 whiledet:predet
34thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art35 whiledet
35whilewhileNOUNNumber=Sing32 thinkingobl
36ofofADP_37 Barbaikcase
37BarbaikBarbaikPROPNNumber=Sing35 whilenmod
38,,PUNCT_42 camepunct
39whenwhenSCONJ_42 camemark
40aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art41 voicedet
41voicevoiceNOUNNumber=Sing42 camensubj
42camecomeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin35 whileparataxis
43outoutADP_46 gorsecase
44ofofADP_46 gorsecase
45thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art46 gorsedet
46gorsegorseNOUNNumber=Sing42 cameobl
47closecloseADJDegree=Pos46 gorseamod
48bybyADP_47 closefixed
49..PUNCT_3 tiredpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1ispastJeguwith a long day's work; tired propertytree rules
2standpastJegu not said herethe mane of one of the animalswith Jegu's handvn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on mane=Location
3waitgerundJegu not said herevn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4dopast · perfectanimals = animalvn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5think speech: othergerundJegu not said herewhilevn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6come outpasta voicethe gorsevn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient gorse=Result
7worka long daynom work «act intransitive»: poss=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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