The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 79

‘Farewell, then,’ answered the king; ‘I will not forget that promise,’ and on he went, and on, and on, till he reached a tall cliff with many sticks lying about.

Who acts: I, king, many sticks · What happens: answer, not forget, go, reach, lie · To what, where: king, promise, tall cliff · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (I, king, many sticks), 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	_	7 answered	punct
2	Farewell	farewell	INTJ	_	7 answered	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Farewell	punct
4	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 answered	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 then	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 answered	punct
7	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 king	det
9	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 answered	obj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 forget	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	15 forget	punct
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 forget	nsubj
13	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 forget	aux
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 forget	advmod
15	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 answered	ccomp
16	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 promise	det
17	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 forget	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 forget	punct
19	’	'	PUNCT	_	15 forget	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 went	cc
21	on	on	SCONJ	_	23 went	mark
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 went	nsubj
23	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 answered	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 on	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 on	cc
26	on	on	ADV	_	23 went	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 on	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 on	cc
29	on	on	ADV	_	23 went	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 reached	punct
31	till	till	SCONJ	_	33 reached	mark
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 reached	nsubj
33	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 went	conj
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 cliff	det
35	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 cliff	amod
36	cliff	cliff	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 reached	obj
37	with	with	ADP	_	39 sticks	case
38	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 sticks	amod
39	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 cliff	nmod
40	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	39 sticks	acl
41	about	about	ADV	_	40 lying	advmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past			the king	then		tree rules
2	not forget	future	I	that promise				tree rules
3	go	past	king					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	reach	past	king	a tall cliff			with many sticks	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent cliff=Theme
5	lie	gerund	many sticks not said here				about property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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