The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 118

They talked and they talked, but we needn’t mind what they said till Friday night came, when both were standing where the mountain road crosses the one going to Ross.

Who acts: women, we, Friday night, both, mountain road, one · What happens: talk, not mind, say, come, stand, cross · To what, where: one, Ross · 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 (women, we, Friday night, both), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 talked	nsubj
2	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 talked	cc
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 talked	nsubj
5	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 talked	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 mind	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 mind	cc
8	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 mind	nsubj
9	need	need	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 mind	aux
10	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 mind	advmod
11	mind	mind	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 talked	parataxis
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 said	obj
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 said	nsubj
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 mind	ccomp
15	till	till	SCONJ	_	18 came	mark
16	Friday	Friday	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 night	compound
17	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 came	nsubj
18	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 said	ccomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 standing	punct
20	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	23 standing	advmod
21	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	23 standing	nsubj
22	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 standing	aux
23	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 came	advcl
24	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	28 crosses	advmod
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 road	det
26	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 road	compound
27	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 crosses	nsubj
28	crosses	cross	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 standing	advcl
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 one	det
30	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 crosses	obj
31	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	30 one	acl
32	to	to	ADP	_	33 Ross	case
33	Ross	Ross	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 going	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 talked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	talk	past	women = woman			vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	talk	past	women = woman			vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not mind	present	we			vn care-88.1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	say speech: assert	past	women = woman			tree rules
5	come	past	Friday night			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	stand	past · progressive	both			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	cross	present	the mountain road	the one		vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient
8	go	gerund	the one not said here		Ross	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to ross=Initial_Location

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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