The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 17

Kilweh was quite happy with his nurse, and ran races and climbed hills with the children who were his playfellows, and in the winter, when the snow lay on the ground, sometimes a man with a harp would stop and beg for shelter, and in return would sing them songs of strange things that had happened in the years gone by.

Who acts: Kilweh, snow, man, strange things · What happens: be, run, climb, lie, stop, beg · To what, where: races, hills, ground, playfellows, return, years

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kilweh, snow, man, strange things), 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	Kilweh	Kilweh	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 happy	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 happy	cop
3	quite	quite	ADV	_	4 happy	advmod
4	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 nurse	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 nurse	nmod:poss
7	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 happy	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 ran	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 ran	cc
10	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 happy	parataxis
11	races	race	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 ran	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 climbed	cc
13	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 ran	conj
14	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 climbed	obj
15	with	with	ADP	_	17 children	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 children	det
17	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 climbed	obl
18	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 were	nsubj
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 children	acl:relcl
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 playfellows	nmod:poss
21	playfellows	playfellow	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 were	nsubj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 lay	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 lay	cc
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 winter	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 winter	det
26	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 lay	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 lay	punct
28	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	31 lay	advmod
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 snow	det
30	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 lay	nsubj
31	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 happy	parataxis
32	on	on	ADP	_	34 ground	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 ground	det
34	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 stop	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 stop	punct
36	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	43 stop	advmod
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 man	det
38	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 stop	nsubj
39	with	with	ADP	_	41 harp	case
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 harp	det
41	harp	harp	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 man	nmod
42	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 stop	aux
43	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 lay	ccomp
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 beg	cc
45	beg	beg	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 stop	conj
46	for	for	ADP	_	47 shelter	case
47	shelter	shelter	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 beg	obl
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 sing	punct
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 sing	cc
50	in	in	ADP	_	51 return	case
51	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 sing	obl
52	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	53 sing	aux
53	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 stop	conj
54	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 sing	obj
55	songs	song	NOUN	Number=Plur	53 sing	obj
56	of	of	ADP	_	58 things	case
57	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	58 things	amod
58	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	55 songs	nmod
59	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	61 happened	nsubj
60	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	61 happened	aux
61	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	58 things	acl:relcl
62	in	in	ADP	_	64 years	case
63	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	64 years	det
64	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	61 happened	obl
65	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	64 years	acl
66	by	by	ADP	_	65 gone	obl
67	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 happy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Kilweh				with Kilweh's nurse; happy property	tree rules
2	run	past		races				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme race=Trajectory
3	climb	past		hills			with the children	vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location hill=Theme
4	lie	past	the snow			winter		tree rules
5	stop	would	a man with a harp		the ground		sometimes property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
6	beg speech: request	infinitive	a man with a harp not said here				for shelter	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent for shelter=Topic
7	sing speech: express	would	a man with a harp not said here	playfellows = playfellow	return			vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary song=Theme
8	happen	past · perfect	strange things			year		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	go by	participle		the years not said here				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
10	sing		strange things					nom song «communication intransitive»: of=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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