The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 81

They never noticed that a beggar was sitting in the shade at the end of the bench, but Toueno’s sharp ears caught the sound of someone eating, and as soon as the farmers had gone into the inn he began to groan softly.

Who acts: Toueno, beggar, sharp ears, farmers · What happens: not notice, sit, catch, eat, go, begin · To what, where: shade, sound, inn · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Toueno, beggar, sharp ears, 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 noticed	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 noticed	advmod
3	noticed	notice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 sitting	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 beggar	det
6	beggar	beggar	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sitting	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 sitting	aux
8	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 noticed	ccomp
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 shade	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 shade	det
11	shade	shade	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sitting	obl
12	at	at	ADP	_	14 end	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 end	det
14	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sitting	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 bench	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 bench	det
17	bench	bench	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 end	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 caught	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 caught	cc
20	Toueno	Toueno	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 ears	nmod:poss
21	’s	's	PART	_	20 Toueno	case
22	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 ears	amod
23	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 caught	nsubj
24	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 noticed	conj
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 sound	det
26	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 caught	obj
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 someone	case
28	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	26 sound	nmod
29	eating	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	28 someone	acl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 gone	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 gone	cc
32	as	as	ADV	_	33 soon	advmod
33	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	38 gone	advmod
34	as	as	SCONJ	_	38 gone	mark
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 farmers	det
36	farmers	farmer	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 gone	nsubj
37	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 gone	aux
38	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 caught	parataxis
39	into	into	ADP	_	41 inn	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 inn	det
41	inn	inn	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 gone	obl
42	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 began	nsubj
43	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 inn	acl:relcl
44	to	to	PART	_	45 groan	mark
45	groan	groan	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 began	xcomp
46	softly	softly	ADV	_	45 groan	advmod
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 noticed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not notice	past	Toueno					vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	sit	past · progressive	a beggar		the shade	at the end of the bench		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in shade=Location
3	catch	past	Toueno's sharp ears	the sound of someone				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=Theme
4	eat	gerund						vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	go	past · perfect	the farmers		the inn		soon property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into inn=Initial_Location
6	begin	past	beggar	the inn not said here				tree rules
7	groan	to-infinitive	beggar not said here				softly 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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