The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 153

‘I will get it,’ replied the young man bravely; but as soon as he was out of sight of the Gruagach he pretended no more, and his face grew dark and his steps lagging.

Who acts: I, prize, face, dark steps · What happens: get, reply, be, pretend, grow, lag · To what, where: Sword, young man, sight, more, dark steps · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, prize, face, dark steps), 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 get	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 get	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 get	aux
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 replied	ccomp
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 get	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 get	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 get	punct
8	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 man	det
10	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 man	amod
11	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 replied	obj
12	bravely	bravely	ADV	_	8 replied	advmod
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 pretended	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 pretended	cc
15	as	as	ADV	_	16 soon	advmod
16	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	27 pretended	advmod
17	as	as	SCONJ	_	22 sight	mark
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 sight	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 sight	cop
20	out	out	ADP	_	22 sight	case
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 sight	case
22	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 soon	advcl
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 Gruagach	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Gruagach	det
25	Gruagach	Gruagach	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 sight	nmod
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 pretended	nsubj
27	pretended	pretend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 replied	parataxis
28	no	no	ADV	_	29 more	advmod
29	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	27 pretended	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 grew	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 grew	cc
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 face	nmod:poss
33	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 grew	nsubj
34	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 pretended	conj
35	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 steps	amod
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 steps	cc
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 steps	nmod:poss
38	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 grew	obj
39	lagging	lag	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	38 steps	acl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	get	future	I	Sword			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
2	reply speech: assert	past		the young man		bravely property	tree rules
3	is	past	prize		sight	of the Gruagach	tree rules
4	pretend	past	prize	more		soon property	tree rules
5	grow	past	prize's face	prize's dark steps			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location step=Theme
6	lag	gerund	prize's dark steps not said here				tree rules
7	step		prize				nom step «act 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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/8/153/