The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 26

What he did not tell, however, was where he had been all the time; that only came out six years later, when people got to know that he had been caught by a mermaid out on the deep sea, and had been her guest during the three days that he was missing.

Who acts: Basmus, that, people, mermaid · What happens: not tell, be, come out, get, know, catch out · To what, where: time, Basmus, deep sea, guest · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Basmus, that, people, mermaid), 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 tell	obj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 tell	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 tell	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 tell	advmod
5	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 where	punct
7	however	however	ADV	_	10 where	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 however	punct
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 where	cop
10	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	16 time	advmod
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 time	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 time	aux
13	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 time	cop
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 time	det:predet
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 time	det
16	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tell	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 came	punct
18	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 came	nsubj
19	only	only	ADV	_	20 came	advmod
20	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 tell	advcl
21	out	out	ADV	_	20 came	advmod
22	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 years	nummod
23	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 later	obl:unmarked
24	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	20 came	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 got	punct
26	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	28 got	advmod
27	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 got	nsubj
28	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 came	parataxis
29	to	to	PART	_	30 know	mark
30	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 got	xcomp
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	35 caught	mark
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 caught	nsubj:pass
33	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 caught	aux
34	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	35 caught	aux:pass
35	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 know	ccomp
36	by	by	ADP	_	38 mermaid	case
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 mermaid	det
38	mermaid	mermaid	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 caught	obl
39	out	out	ADP	_	35 caught	compound:prt
40	on	on	ADP	_	43 sea	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 sea	det
42	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 sea	amod
43	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 caught	obl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 guest	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 guest	cc
46	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 guest	aux
47	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	49 guest	cop
48	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	49 guest	nmod:poss
49	guest	guest	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 got	conj
50	during	during	ADP	_	53 days	case
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 days	det
52	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	53 days	nummod
53	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 guest	obl
54	that	that	SCONJ	_	57 missing	mark
55	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	57 missing	nsubj
56	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	57 missing	cop
57	missing	missing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 guest	advcl
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not tell speech: assert	past · do-support	Basmus					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient
2	is	past					however, where property	tree rules
3	is a	past · perfect	Basmus	all time				tree rules
4	come out	past	that				late, out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
5	get	past	people					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	know	to-infinitive	people not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
7	catch out	past · perfect · passive	a mermaid	Basmus	the deep sea			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
8	is a	past · perfect	people not said here	Mermaid's guest		day		tree rules
9	is	past	Basmus				missing property	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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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