The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Lads, sentence 35

The man kept silence for some time, but at last she irritated him so much that he burst out with the secret, and in one moment the castle was gone, and they sat once more in their wretched old hut.

Who acts: man, fortune, husband, castle · What happens: keep, irritate, burst out, be, sit · To what, where: silence, husband, last, more, wretched old hut

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Lads. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, fortune, husband, castle), 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	3 kept	nsubj
3	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 kept	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 time	case
6	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	7 time	det
7	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 kept	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 irritated	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 irritated	cc
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 last	case
11	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 irritated	obl
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 irritated	nsubj
13	irritated	irritate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 kept	conj
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 irritated	obj
15	so	so	ADV	_	16 much	advmod
16	much	much	ADV	_	13 irritated	advmod
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 burst	mark
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 burst	nsubj
19	burst	burst	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 irritated	advcl
20	out	out	ADP	_	19 burst	compound:prt
21	with	with	ADP	_	23 secret	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 secret	det
23	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 burst	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 gone	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 gone	cc
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 moment	case
27	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 moment	nummod
28	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 gone	obl
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 castle	det
30	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 gone	nsubj
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 gone	cop
32	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 burst	conj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 sat	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 sat	cc
35	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 sat	nsubj
36	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 kept	parataxis
37	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	38 more	advmod
38	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	36 sat	obj
39	in	in	ADP	_	43 hut	case
40	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 hut	nmod:poss
41	wretched	wretched	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 hut	amod
42	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 hut	amod
43	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 sat	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 kept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	the man	silence		time		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent silence=Theme
2	irritate	past	fortune	husband	last			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer
3	burst out	past	husband				with the secret	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is	past	the castle			moment	gone property	tree rules
5	sit	past	man	more	man's wretched old hut			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent more=Theme in hut=Location

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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