The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Watch, sentence 134

And in his more serious moments what could be pleasanter than to talk to Grave upon some shady lawn, while he held the hand of Loving in his own, and all the others lingered near in sympathetic silence?

Who acts: Prince · What happens: be, talk, grave, hold, linger · To what, where: hand, own, others, sympathetic silence

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Watch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	10 pleasanter	cc
2	in	in	ADP	_	6 moments	case
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 moments	nmod:poss
4	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 serious	advmod
5	serious	serious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 moments	amod
6	moments	moment	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 pleasanter	obl
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 pleasanter	obl
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 pleasanter	aux
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 pleasanter	cop
10	pleasanter	pleasant	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
11	than	than	SCONJ	_	13 talk	mark
12	to	to	PART	_	13 talk	mark
13	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 pleasanter	csubj
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 Grave	case
15	Grave	grave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 talk	conj
16	upon	upon	ADP	_	19 lawn	case
17	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	19 lawn	det
18	shady	shady	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 lawn	amod
19	lawn	lawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 Grave	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 held	punct
21	while	while	SCONJ	_	23 held	mark
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 held	nsubj
23	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 pleasanter	conj
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 hand	det
25	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 held	obj
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 Loving	case
27	Loving	Loving	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 hand	nmod
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 own	case
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 own	nmod:poss
30	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 held	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 others	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 others	cc
33	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	35 others	det:predet
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 others	det
35	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 held	obl
36	lingered	linger	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 others	acl
37	near	near	ADP	_	40 silence	case
38	in	in	ADP	_	40 silence	case
39	sympathetic	sympathetic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 silence	amod
40	silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 lingered	obl
41	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 pleasanter	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	could				moment	pleasant property	tree rules
2	talk	to-infinitive						vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	grave	infinitive					upon some shady lawn	tree rules
4	hold	past	Prince	the hand of Loving	Prince's own		all others obl	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent hand=Theme in own=Location
5	linger	participle		all others not said here	sympathetic silence			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near silence=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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