The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 127

Some under-officers were sitting there, who were out to try to get some one enlisted to stand sentry.

Who acts: Some, one · What happens: sit, be, try, get, enlist, stand · To what, where: sentry

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 (Some, one), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	6 sitting	nsubj
2	under	under	ADP	_	4 officers	case
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 under	punct
4	officers	officer	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Some	nmod
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sitting	aux
6	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 sitting	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 out	punct
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 out	nsubj
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 out	cop
11	out	out	ADV	_	6 sitting	advmod
12	to	to	PART	_	13 try	mark
13	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 out	advcl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 get	mark
15	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 try	xcomp
16	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	17 one	det
17	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 enlisted	nsubj
18	enlisted	enlist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 get	ccomp
19	to	to	PART	_	20 stand	mark
20	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 enlisted	xcomp
21	sentry	sentry	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 stand	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 sitting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit	past · progressive	Some		there		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past				out property	tree rules
3	try	to-infinitive					vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	get not said to happen	to-infinitive					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	enlist	past	some one				vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute
6	stand	to-infinitive	some one not said here	sentry			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sentry=Stimulus

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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