The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 88

Now there was much talk amongst those who remained without when the gate closed upon Bedwyr, and Goreu, son of Custennin, prevailed with the porter, and he and his companions got in also and hid themselves.

Who acts: gate, Goreu · What happens: remain, close, be, get in, hide · To what, where: knights

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 (gate, Goreu), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 was	advmod
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 was	expl
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 prevailed	cop
4	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 talk	amod
5	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 was	nsubj
6	amongst	amongst	ADP	_	7 those	case
7	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	5 talk	nmod
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 remained	nsubj
9	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 those	acl:relcl
10	without	without	SCONJ	_	14 closed	mark
11	when	when	SCONJ	_	14 closed	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 gate	det
13	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 closed	nsubj
14	closed	close	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 remained	ccomp
15	upon	upon	ADP	_	16 Bedwyr	case
16	Bedwyr	Bedwyr	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 closed	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 prevailed	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 prevailed	cc
19	Goreu	Goreu	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 prevailed	nsubj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 son	punct
21	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 Goreu	appos
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 Custennin	case
23	Custennin	Custennin	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 son	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 Goreu	punct
25	prevailed	prevail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
26	with	with	ADP	_	28 porter	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 porter	det
28	porter	porter	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 prevailed	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 got	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 got	cc
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 got	nsubj
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 companions	cc
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 companions	nmod:poss
34	companions	companion	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 he	conj
35	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 prevailed	parataxis
36	in	in	ADV	_	35 got	advmod
37	also	also	ADV	_	35 got	advmod
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 hid	cc
39	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 got	conj
40	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	39 hid	obj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	25 prevailed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	remain	past				tree rules
2	close	participle	the gate		upon Bedwyr	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	is	past	Goreu		with the porter; prevail property	tree rules
4	get in	past	gate			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
5	hide	past	gate not said here	knights = knight		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=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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