The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 121

So it had gone on for something like a whole year; every night a sentinel had been placed beside the chest, either by compulsion or of his own free will, but not a single one of the sentinels was to be seen, either on the following day or any time thereafter.

Who acts: payment · What happens: go on, place, see, follow · To what, where: night, chest, single one

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (payment), 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 gone	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gone	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	aux
4	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	4 gone	compound:prt
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 something	case
7	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 gone	obl
8	like	like	ADP	_	11 year	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 year	det
10	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 year	amod
11	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 something	nmod
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 placed	punct
13	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	14 night	det
14	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 placed	nsubj:pass
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 sentinel	det
16	sentinel	sentinel	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 placed	nsubj:pass
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 placed	aux
18	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 placed	aux:pass
19	placed	place	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 gone	conj
20	beside	beside	ADP	_	22 chest	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 chest	det
22	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 placed	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 compulsion	punct
24	either	either	CCONJ	_	26 compulsion	cc:preconj
25	by	by	ADP	_	26 compulsion	case
26	compulsion	compulsion	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 chest	conj
27	or	or	CCONJ	_	32 will	cc
28	of	of	ADP	_	32 will	case
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 will	nmod:poss
30	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 will	amod
31	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 will	amod
32	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 chest	acl:relcl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 seen	punct
34	but	but	CCONJ	_	45 seen	cc
35	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	38 one	advmod
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 one	det
37	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 one	amod
38	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 seen	nsubj:pass
39	of	of	ADP	_	41 sentinels	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 sentinels	det
41	sentinels	sentinel	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 one	nmod
42	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 seen	aux:pass
43	to	to	PART	_	45 seen	mark
44	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	45 seen	aux:pass
45	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 placed	conj
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 day	punct
47	either	either	CCONJ	_	51 day	cc:preconj
48	on	on	ADP	_	51 day	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 day	det
50	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	51 day	amod
51	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 seen	obl:unmarked
52	or	or	CCONJ	_	54 time	cc
53	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	54 time	det
54	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 day	conj
55	thereafter	thereafter	ADV	_	45 seen	advmod
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go on	past · perfect	payment				for something	vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	place	past · perfect · passive		every night	the chest either compulsion			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme beside chest=Destination
3	see	past · passive		a single one of the sentinels		day	thereafter property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
4	follow	gerund						vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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