The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 81

The man then laid hold of him, and said, ‘You must remain at your post, as you have promised,’ and whether he liked it or not, Christian had just to go back with him the whole way to the church.

Who acts: man, You, remainder, Christian · What happens: lay, hold, say, remain, promise, like · To what, where: post, whole way · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, You, remainder, Christian), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 man	det
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 laid	nsubj
3	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 laid	advmod
4	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 laid	xcomp
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 hold	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 said	cc
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 laid	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 remain	punct
12	‘	'	PUNCT	_	15 remain	punct
13	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 remain	nsubj
14	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 remain	aux
15	remain	remain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
16	at	at	ADP	_	18 post	case
17	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 post	nmod:poss
18	post	post	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 remain	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 promised	punct
20	as	as	SCONJ	_	23 promised	mark
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 promised	nsubj
22	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 promised	aux
23	promised	promise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 remain	parataxis
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 promised	punct
25	’	'	PUNCT	_	23 promised	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 liked	cc
27	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	29 liked	mark
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 liked	nsubj
29	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 promised	conj
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 liked	obj
31	or	or	CCONJ	_	32 not	cc
32	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 liked	conj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 had	punct
34	Christian	Christian	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 had	nsubj
35	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 laid	conj
36	just	just	ADV	_	38 go	advmod
37	to	to	PART	_	38 go	mark
38	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 had	xcomp
39	back	back	ADV	_	38 go	advmod
40	with	with	ADP	_	41 him	case
41	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 go	obl
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 way	det
43	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 way	amod
44	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 go	obl:unmarked
45	to	to	ADP	_	47 church	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 church	det
47	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 way	nmod
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 laid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lay	past	the man			then		tree rules
2	hold	infinitive	the man not said here				of remainder	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	the man not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	remain	must	You		your post			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at post=Location
5	promise speech: promise	present · perfect	you					vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	like	past	remainder	post				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme
7	have	past	Christian					tree rules
8	go back	to-infinitive	Christian not said here	the whole way to the church			with remainder	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient

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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