The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 35

Once upon a time there came to the ancient city of Rahmatabad a jogi[FN#1: A Hindu holy man.] of holy appearance, who took up his abode under a tree outside the city, where he would sit for days at a time fasting from food and drink, motionless except for the fingers that turned restlessly his string of beads.

Who acts: Hindu holy man, man, time, fingers · What happens: come, take up, sit, fast, turn · To what, where: jogi, ancient city, abode, tree, food, string

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hindu holy man, man, time, fingers), 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	Once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 came	advmod
2	upon	upon	ADP	_	4 time	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 time	det
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	obl
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 time	advmod
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	10 city	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 city	det
9	ancient	ancient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 city	amod
10	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 Rahmatabad	case
12	Rahmatabad	Rahmatabad	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 city	nmod
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 jogi	det
14	jogi	jogi	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	obl
15	[	[	PUNCT	_	17 #	punct
16	FN	FN	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 #	compound
17	#	#	SYM	Number=Sing	14 jogi	appos
18	1	1	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	17 #	flat
19	:	:	PUNCT	_	23 man	punct
20	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 man	det
21	Hindu	hindu	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 man	amod
22	holy	holy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 man	amod
23	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 took	nsubj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 man	punct
25	]	]	PUNCT	_	23 man	punct
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 appearance	case
27	holy	holy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 appearance	amod
28	appearance	appearance	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 man	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 took	punct
30	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 took	nsubj
31	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 came	conj
32	up	up	ADP	_	31 took	compound:prt
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 abode	nmod:poss
34	abode	abode	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 took	obj
35	under	under	ADP	_	37 tree	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 tree	det
37	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 took	obl
38	outside	outside	ADP	_	40 city	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 city	det
40	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 took	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 sit	punct
42	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	45 sit	advmod
43	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 sit	nsubj
44	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	45 sit	aux
45	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 took	parataxis
46	for	for	ADP	_	47 days	case
47	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 sit	obl
48	at	at	ADP	_	50 time	case
49	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	50 time	det
50	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 sit	obl
51	fasting	fast	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	50 time	acl
52	from	from	ADP	_	53 food	case
53	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 fasting	obl
54	and	and	CCONJ	_	55 drink	cc
55	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 food	conj
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 motionless	punct
57	motionless	motionless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 sit	conj
58	except	except	ADP	_	61 fingers	case
59	for	for	ADP	_	61 fingers	case
60	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	61 fingers	det
61	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	57 motionless	obl
62	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	63 turned	nsubj
63	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	61 fingers	acl:relcl
64	restlessly	restlessly	ADV	_	66 string	advmod
65	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	66 string	nmod:poss
66	string	string	NOUN	Number=Sing	63 turned	obj
67	of	of	ADP	_	68 beads	case
68	beads	bead	NOUN	Number=Plur	66 string	nmod
69	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past		a jogi	the ancient city of Rahmatabad	time	once property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to city=Initial_Location
2	take up	past	a Hindu holy man of holy appearance	man's abode	a tree		outside the city	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent abode=Theme
3	sit	would	man			day; time		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	fast	gerund	a time not said here		food and drink			tree rules
5	turn	past	the fingers	man's string of beads				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent string=Theme

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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