The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 94

‘Just as I was falling asleep last night, I heard a horse’s tramp on the grass and a knock at the door, and there, when I came out, was a fine-looking dark man, mounted on a black horse, and he told me to get ready in all haste, for a lady was in great want of me.

Who acts: I, infant, lady · What happens: fall, hear, come out, look, be, mount · To what, where: tramp, grass, looking dark man, me · 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, infant, lady), 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	_	6 falling	punct
2	Just	just	ADV	_	6 falling	advmod
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 falling	mark
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 falling	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 falling	aux
6	falling	fall	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 heard	ccomp
7	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 night	amod
8	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 night	amod
9	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 falling	obl:unmarked
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 falling	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 heard	nsubj
12	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 horse	det
14	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 tramp	nmod:poss
15	’s	's	PART	_	14 horse	case
16	tramp	tramp	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 heard	obj
17	on	on	ADP	_	19 grass	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 grass	det
19	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 heard	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 knock	cc
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 knock	det
22	knock	knock	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 grass	conj
23	at	at	ADP	_	25 door	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 door	det
25	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 knock	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 there	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 there	cc
28	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 heard	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 came	punct
30	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	32 came	advmod
31	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 came	nsubj
32	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 heard	conj
33	out	out	ADV	_	32 came	advmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 man	punct
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 man	cop
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 man	det
37	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 looking	compound
38	-	-	PUNCT	_	37 fine	punct
39	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	41 man	amod
40	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 man	amod
41	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 came	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 mounted	punct
43	mounted	mount	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	41 man	acl
44	on	on	ADP	_	47 horse	case
45	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	47 horse	det
46	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 horse	amod
47	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 mounted	obl
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 told	punct
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 told	cc
50	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 told	nsubj
51	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 heard	conj
52	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	51 told	iobj
53	to	to	PART	_	54 get	mark
54	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	51 told	xcomp
55	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 get	xcomp
56	in	in	ADP	_	58 haste	case
57	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	58 haste	det
58	haste	haste	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 ready	obl
59	,	,	PUNCT	_	66 want	punct
60	for	for	ADP	_	66 want	case
61	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	62 lady	det
62	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	66 want	nsubj
63	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	66 want	cop
64	in	in	ADP	_	66 want	case
65	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	66 want	amod
66	want	want	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 told	ccomp
67	of	of	ADP	_	68 me	case
68	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	66 want	nmod
69	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past · progressive	I				night		vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	hear	past	I	a horse's tramp		the grass and a knock at the door			tree rules
3	come out	past	I					out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
4	look	gerund							vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
5	is a	past		a looking dark man					tree rules
6	mount	participle		a looking dark man not said here				on a black horse	vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on horse=Destination
7	tell speech: assert	past	infant		me				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
8	get not said to happen	to-infinitive	infant not said here					ready property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
9	is	past	a lady					for great want; of me	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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