The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 40

Antoine was sitting on a plum tree belonging to a neighbour, eating the ripe fruit, when he saw the three young farmers coming towards him.

Who acts: Antoine, three young farmers · What happens: sit, belong, eat, see, come · To what, where: plum tree, ripe fruit, three young farmers

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Antoine, three young farmers), 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	Antoine	Antoine	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 sitting	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sitting	aux
3	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	7 tree	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 tree	det
6	plum	plum	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tree	compound
7	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sitting	obl
8	belonging	belong	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 sitting	advcl
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 neighbour	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 neighbour	det
11	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 belonging	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 eating	punct
13	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 sitting	advcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 fruit	det
15	ripe	ripe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 fruit	amod
16	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 eating	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 saw	punct
18	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	20 saw	advmod
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 saw	nsubj
20	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sitting	parataxis
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 farmers	det
22	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 farmers	nummod
23	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 farmers	amod
24	farmers	farmer	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 saw	obj
25	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 farmers	acl
26	towards	towards	ADP	_	27 him	case
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 coming	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sitting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit	past · progressive	Antoine		a plum tree		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on tree=Location
2	belong	gerund	Antoine not said here			to a neighbour	vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme
3	eat	gerund	Antoine not said here	the ripe fruit			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=Patient
4	see	past	Antoine	the three young farmers			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer farmer=Stimulus
5	come	gerund	the three young farmers not said here			towards Antoine	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme towards he=Initial_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 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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