The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 32

One evening more than eighty years ago a man named William was passing along the bank of a stream when he noticed a sheep who was bleating loudly.

Who acts: man, William, sheep · What happens: name, pass, notice, bleat · To what, where: man, bank, sheep

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, William, sheep), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 evening	nummod
2	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 more	obl:unmarked
3	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	5 eighty	advmod
4	than	than	ADP	_	3 more	fixed
5	eighty	eighty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 years	nummod
6	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 ago	obl:unmarked
7	ago	ago	ADV	_	13 passing	advmod
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 man	det
9	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 passing	nsubj
10	named	name	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 man	acl
11	William	William	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 named	xcomp
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 passing	aux
13	passing	pass	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
14	along	along	ADP	_	16 bank	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 bank	det
16	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 passing	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 stream	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 stream	det
19	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 bank	nmod
20	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	22 noticed	advmod
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 noticed	nsubj
22	noticed	notice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 passing	advcl
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 sheep	det
24	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 noticed	obj
25	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 bleating	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 bleating	aux
27	bleating	bleat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 sheep	acl:relcl
28	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	27 bleating	advmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 passing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	name	participle		a man not said here			vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	pass	past · progressive	a man		the bank of a stream	ago property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme along bank=Location
3	notice	past	William	a sheep			vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sheep=Stimulus
4	bleat	past · progressive	a sheep			loudly property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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