The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 114

So the youth remained quietly in the castle, eating and looking at all the beautiful things around him, and every now and then pretending to be searching busily in all the closets and corners.

Who acts: youth · What happens: remain, eat, look, pretend, search · To what, where: castle, closets

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth), 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 remained	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 youth	det
3	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 remained	nsubj
4	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	4 remained	advmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 castle	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 castle	det
8	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 remained	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 eating	punct
10	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 remained	advcl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 looking	cc
12	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 eating	conj
13	at	at	ADP	_	17 things	case
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 things	det:predet
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 things	det
16	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 things	amod
17	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 looking	obl
18	around	around	ADP	_	19 him	case
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 things	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 pretending	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 pretending	cc
22	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	26 pretending	det
23	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	26 pretending	advmod
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 pretending	cc
25	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	26 pretending	advmod
26	pretending	pretend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 remained	advcl
27	to	to	PART	_	29 searching	mark
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 searching	aux
29	searching	search	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 pretending	advcl
30	busily	busily	ADV	_	29 searching	advmod
31	in	in	ADP	_	34 closets	case
32	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	34 closets	det:predet
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 closets	det
34	closets	closet	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 searching	obl
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 corners	cc
36	corners	corner	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 closets	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 remained	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	remain	past	the youth	the castle		quietly property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in castle=Location
2	eat	gerund	the youth not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	look	gerund	the youth not said here			at all beautiful things around youth	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at thing=Theme
4	pretend	gerund	the youth not said here		now; then		tree rules
5	search	to-infinitive · progressive	the youth not said here	all closets and corners		busily property	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in closet=Location

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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