The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 120

‘What can be keeping him,’ he said to the hermit when the hour was nearly up.

Who acts: youth, hour · What happens: keep, say, be · To what, where: youth · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth, hour), 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	_	5 keeping	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 keeping	obj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 keeping	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 keeping	aux
5	keeping	keep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 said	ccomp
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 keeping	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 keeping	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 keeping	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 said	nsubj
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 hermit	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 hermit	det
13	hermit	hermit	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	obl
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	19 up	advmod
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 hour	det
16	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 up	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 up	cop
18	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	19 up	advmod
19	up	up	ADV	_	10 said	advmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	keep	can · progressive		youth		vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent what=Theme he=Attribute
2	say speech: assert	past	youth		to the hermit	vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient whether/if S»: agent=Pivot to hermit=Experiencer clause=Topic
3	is	past	the hour		nearly, up 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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