The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 87

It was not long, and when she reached the town she went straight to the dwarfs, who were holding counsel in a wide green place, and said to them, ‘Listen, my friends!

Who acts: journey, Barbaik, dwarfs · What happens: not be, reach, go, hold, say, listen · To what, where: town, counsel, wide green place, horses, friends · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (journey, Barbaik, dwarfs), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 long	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 long	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 long	advmod
4	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 went	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 went	cc
7	when	when	SCONJ	_	9 reached	mark
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 reached	nsubj
9	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 went	advcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 town	det
11	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 reached	obj
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 went	nsubj
13	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 long	conj
14	straight	straight	ADV	_	17 dwarfs	advmod
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 dwarfs	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 dwarfs	det
17	dwarfs	dwarf	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 went	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 holding	punct
19	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 holding	nsubj
20	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 holding	aux
21	holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 dwarfs	acl
22	counsel	counsel	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 holding	obj
23	in	in	ADP	_	27 place	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 place	det
25	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 place	amod
26	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 place	amod
27	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 holding	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 said	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 said	cc
30	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 went	parataxis
31	to	to	ADP	_	32 them	case
32	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 said	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 Listen	punct
34	‘	'	PUNCT	_	35 Listen	punct
35	Listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 said	conj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 friends	punct
37	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 friends	nmod:poss
38	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 Listen	obl
39	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 long	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	not is	past	journey				long property	tree rules
2	reach	past	Barbaik	the town				vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent town=Theme
3	go	past	Barbaik				to the dwarfs	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to dwarf=Initial_Location
4	hold	past · progressive	the dwarfs	counsel		a wide green place		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent counsel=Theme in place=Location
5	say speech: assert	past			horses = horse			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient
6	listen	infinitive		my friends				vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: 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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