The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 93

About six weeks after--just as he was going out to his work one morning--a neighbour, that used to mind women when they were ill, came up to him, and kept step by step with him to the field, and this is what she told him.

Who acts: infant, neighbour, women, this · What happens: go out, use, mind, be, come up, keep · To what, where: six weeks, women, infant, step, neighbour · 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 (infant, neighbour, women, this), 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	About	about	ADV	_	2 six	advmod
2	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 weeks	nummod
3	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	after	after	SCONJ	_	10 going	mark
5	--	--	PUNCT	_	10 going	punct
6	just	just	ADV	_	10 going	advmod
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 going	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 going	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 going	aux
10	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 weeks	acl:relcl
11	out	out	ADV	_	10 going	advmod
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 work	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 work	nmod:poss
14	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 going	obl
15	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 morning	nummod
16	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 going	obl:unmarked
17	--	--	PUNCT	_	19 neighbour	punct
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 neighbour	det
19	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 morning	appos
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 used	punct
21	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 used	nsubj
22	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 neighbour	acl:relcl
23	to	to	PART	_	24 mind	mark
24	mind	mind	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 used	xcomp
25	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 mind	obj
26	when	when	SCONJ	_	29 ill	mark
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 ill	nsubj
28	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 ill	cop
29	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 mind	advcl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 came	punct
31	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 used	conj
32	up	up	ADV	_	31 came	advmod
33	to	to	ADP	_	34 him	case
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 came	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 kept	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 kept	cc
37	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 used	conj
38	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 kept	xcomp
39	by	by	ADP	_	40 step	case
40	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 kept	obl
41	with	with	ADP	_	42 him	case
42	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 step	nmod
43	to	to	ADP	_	45 field	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 field	det
45	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 kept	obl
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 what	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 what	cc
48	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	50 what	nsubj
49	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	50 what	cop
50	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	22 used	obl
51	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 told	nsubj
52	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 what	acl:relcl
53	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 told	iobj
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 weeks	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	go out	past · progressive	infant	six weeks not said here		morning	to infant's work; out property	tree rules
2	use	past	a neighbour					vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	mind	to-infinitive	a neighbour not said here	women				vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Theme
4	is	past	women = woman				ill property	tree rules
5	come up	past	a neighbour not said here		infant			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location
6	keep	participle	a neighbour not said here	step			by step with infant; to the field	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent by step=Location
7	is a	present	this	a neighbour				tree rules
8	tell speech: assert	past	neighbour		infant			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
9	work		infant					nom work «act intransitive»: 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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