The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 104

So the ousel flew before them, till she reached the stag of Redynvre; but when they inquired of the stag whether he knew aught of Mabon he shook his head.

Who acts: ousel, beasts, race · What happens: fly, reach, inquire, know, shake · To what, where: stag, aught, head

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ousel, beasts, race), 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 flew	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 ousel	det
3	ousel	ousel	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 flew	nsubj
4	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	before	before	ADP	_	6 them	case
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 flew	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 reached	punct
8	till	till	SCONJ	_	10 reached	mark
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 reached	nsubj
10	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 flew	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 stag	det
12	stag	stag	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 reached	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 Redynvre	case
14	Redynvre	Redynvre	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 stag	nmod
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 inquired	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 inquired	cc
17	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	19 inquired	advmod
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 inquired	nsubj
19	inquired	inquire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 flew	conj
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 stag	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 stag	det
22	stag	stag	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 inquired	obl
23	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	25 knew	mark
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 knew	nsubj
25	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 inquired	advcl
26	aught	aught	PRON	PronType=Ind	25 knew	obj
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 Mabon	case
28	Mabon	Mabon	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 aught	nmod
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 shook	nsubj
30	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 aught	acl:relcl
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 head	nmod:poss
32	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 shook	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 flew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	fly	past	the ousel		before beasts = beast		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before they=Location
2	reach	past	ousel	the stag of Redynvre			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent stag=Theme
3	inquire speech: other	past	beasts = beast			of the stag	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent of stag=Recipient
4	know	past	race	aught			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer aught=Stimulus
5	shake	past	race	race's head			vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent head=Patient

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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