The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 69

At your coming I did not know what to do, but stayed where I was, because I thought my silent watching could not offend you.’

Who acts: your, I · What happens: come, not know, do, stay, be, think · To what, where: silent, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon of the North(2). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (your, I), 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	At	at	SCONJ	_	3 coming	mark
2	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 coming	nsubj
3	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 know	advcl
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 know	nsubj
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 know	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 know	advmod
7	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 do	obj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 do	mark
10	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 know	ccomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 stayed	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 stayed	cc
13	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 know	parataxis
14	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	16 was	advmod
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 was	nsubj
16	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 stayed	advcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 thought	punct
18	because	because	SCONJ	_	20 thought	mark
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 thought	nsubj
20	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 stayed	conj
21	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 silent	nmod:poss
22	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 thought	obj
23	watching	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 thought	xcomp
24	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 offend	aux
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 offend	advmod
26	offend	offend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 watching	ccomp
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 offend	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 know	punct
29	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	come	gerund	your		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not know	past · do-support	I		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	do	to-infinitive			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
4	stay	past			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	be	past	I		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	think speech: other	past	I	my silent	vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent silent=Attribute clause=Theme
7	watch	gerund	I not said here		tree rules
8	not offend	could	I not said here	you	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer

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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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