The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 17

‘The donkey expected that as soon as they were left alone the lion would begin to speak of their marriage, and where they should live, but as he said nothing she looked up.

Who acts: donkey, lion, visitors · What happens: expect, leave, begin, speak, live, say · To what, where: visitors, nothing · 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 (donkey, lion, visitors), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	4 expected	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 donkey	det
3	donkey	donkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 expected	nsubj
4	expected	expect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 left	mark
6	as	as	ADV	_	7 soon	advmod
7	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 left	advmod
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 left	mark
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 left	nsubj
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 left	aux:pass
11	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 begin	advcl
12	alone	alone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 left	xcomp
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 lion	det
14	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 begin	nsubj
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 begin	aux
16	begin	begin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 expected	ccomp
17	to	to	PART	_	18 speak	mark
18	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 begin	xcomp
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 marriage	case
20	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 marriage	nmod:poss
21	marriage	marriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 speak	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 live	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 live	cc
24	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	27 live	advmod
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 live	nsubj
26	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 live	aux
27	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 begin	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 said	punct
29	but	but	CCONJ	_	32 said	cc
30	as	as	SCONJ	_	32 said	mark
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 said	nsubj
32	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 expected	conj
33	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	32 said	obj
34	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 looked	nsubj
35	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 nothing	acl:relcl
36	up	up	ADP	_	35 looked	compound:prt
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 expected	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	expect	past	the donkey			vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	leave	past · passive		visitors = visitor	alone, soon property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	begin	would	the lion			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	speak speech: other	to-infinitive	the lion not said here		of visitors's marriage	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	live	should	visitors = visitor			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	say speech: assert	past	lion	nothing		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic
7	look up	past	donkey			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
8	marry		visitors = visitor			nom marriage «state transitive»: poss=agent

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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