The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 82

One day they were all walking down to a lake that lay at the bottom of the lawn when they met a poor beggar.

Who acts: princes, lake · What happens: walk down, lie, meet · To what, where: bottom, poor beggar

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 (princes, lake), 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 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 walking	obl:unmarked
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 walking	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 walking	aux
5	all	all	ADV	_	6 walking	advmod
6	walking	walk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	down	down	ADV	_	6 walking	advmod
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 lake	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 lake	det
10	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 walking	obl
11	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 lay	nsubj
12	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 lake	acl:relcl
13	at	at	ADP	_	15 bottom	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 bottom	det
15	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lay	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 lawn	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 lawn	det
18	lawn	lawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 bottom	nmod
19	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	21 met	advmod
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 met	nsubj
21	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 lay	advcl
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 beggar	det
23	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 beggar	amod
24	beggar	beggar	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 met	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 walking	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk down	past · progressive	princes = prince			day	to a lake result; all, down property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to lake=Result
2	lie	past	a lake		the bottom of the lawn			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at bottom=Location
3	meet	past	princes = prince	a poor beggar				vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beggar=Co-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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