The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 103

I didn’t let on that I found any difference, and after a bit says the Dark Man, “Go before me to the hall door, and I will be with you in a few moments, and see you safe home.”

Who acts: I, Dark Man · What happens: not let, find, say, go, be, see · To what, where: difference, that, hall door, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Dark Man), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 let	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 let	aux
3	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 let	advmod
4	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 that	case
6	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 found	obl
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 found	nsubj
8	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 let	conj
9	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	10 difference	det
10	difference	difference	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 found	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 says	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 says	cc
13	after	after	ADP	_	15 bit	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 bit	det
15	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 says	obl
16	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 let	parataxis
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Man	det
18	Dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 Man	amod
19	Man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 says	nsubj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 Go	punct
21	“	"	PUNCT	_	22 Go	punct
22	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	16 says	ccomp
23	before	before	ADP	_	24 me	case
24	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 Go	obl
25	to	to	ADP	_	28 door	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 door	det
27	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 door	compound
28	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 Go	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 you	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 you	cc
31	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 you	nsubj
32	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 you	aux
33	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	35 you	cop
34	with	with	ADP	_	35 you	case
35	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 let	obj
36	in	in	ADP	_	39 moments	case
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 moments	det
38	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 moments	amod
39	moments	moment	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 you	nmod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 see	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 see	cc
42	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 let	conj
43	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	42 see	obj
44	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 home	amod
45	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 see	obj
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 let	punct
47	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not let	past · do-support	I					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent
2	find	past	I	any difference	that			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent difference=Topic
3	say speech: assert	present	the Dark Man			after a bit		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	go in a quote	infinitive			the hall door	before the Dark Man = man		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to door=Initial_Location
5	is in a quote	future	the Dark Man = man			moment	with you	tree rules
6	see in a quote	infinitive	the Dark Man = man not said here	you				tree rules

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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