The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Blackbird, sentence 13

The latter, who was leaning out of the window of the inn, called to him to stay where he was and amuse himself.

Who acts: latter, youth · What happens: lean, call, stay, be · To what, where: window, youth · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Blackbird. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (latter, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 latter	det
2	latter	latter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 leaning	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 leaning	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 leaning	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 leaning	aux
6	leaning	lean	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	out	out	ADP	_	10 window	case
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 window	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 window	det
10	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 leaning	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 inn	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 inn	det
13	inn	inn	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 window	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 called	punct
15	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 leaning	conj
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 him	case
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 called	obl
18	to	to	PART	_	19 stay	mark
19	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 called	advcl
20	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	24 amuse	advmod
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 amuse	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 amuse	cop
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 amuse	cc
24	amuse	amuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 stay	advcl
25	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	24 amuse	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 leaning	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	lean	past · progressive	the latter		the window of the inn		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent out window=Location
2	call	participle	the latter not said here	youth			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
3	stay	to-infinitive	the latter not said here				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is	past	youth			amuse property	tree rules

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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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