English Fairy Tales, Childe Rowland, sentence 66

Childe Rowland was just going to raise it to his lips, when he looked at his sister and remembered why he had come all that way.

Who acts: Childe · What happens: go, raise, look, remember, come · To what, where: basin, lips, way · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Childe Rowland. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Childe), 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	Childe	Childe	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 going	nsubj
2	Rowland	Rowland	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Childe	flat
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 going	aux
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 going	advmod
5	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 raise	mark
7	raise	raise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 going	xcomp
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 raise	obj
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 lips	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 lips	nmod:poss
11	lips	lip	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 raise	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 looked	punct
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 looked	advmod
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 looked	nsubj
15	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 going	parataxis
16	at	at	ADP	_	18 sister	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 sister	nmod:poss
18	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 looked	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 remembered	cc
20	remembered	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 looked	conj
21	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	24 come	advmod
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 come	nsubj
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 come	aux
24	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 remembered	ccomp
25	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	27 way	det:predet
26	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 way	det
27	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 come	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 going	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past · progressive	Childe				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	raise	to-infinitive	Childe not said here	basin	Childe's lips		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to lip=Destination
3	look	past	Childe			at Childe's sister	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at sister=Theme
4	remember	past	Childe not said here				vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	come	past · perfect	Childe	all way			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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