The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 23

Stealthily the young man crept along the passage, pausing now and then to make sure that no man was following him, and entered the king’s chamber.

Who acts: young man, man · What happens: creep, pause, make, follow, enter · To what, where: passage, end, chamber

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young man, man), 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	Stealthily	stealthily	ADV	_	5 crept	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 man	det
3	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 crept	nsubj
5	crept	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	along	along	ADP	_	8 passage	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 passage	det
8	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 crept	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 pausing	punct
10	pausing	pause	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 crept	advcl
11	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 pausing	advmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 then	cc
13	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 now	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 make	mark
15	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 pausing	advcl
16	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 make	xcomp
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 following	mark
18	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	19 man	det
19	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 following	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 following	aux
21	following	follow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 sure	ccomp
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 following	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 entered	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 entered	cc
25	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 crept	conj
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 king	det
27	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 chamber	nmod:poss
28	’s	's	PART	_	27 king	case
29	chamber	chamber	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 entered	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 crept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	creep	past	the young man		the passage		stealthily property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along passage=Trajectory
2	pause	gerund	the young man not said here			now		vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
3	make	to-infinitive	the young man not said here				sure property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
4	follow	past · progressive	no man	end				vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
5	enter	past	the young man not said here	the king's chamber				vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme chamber=Destination

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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