The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 96

There I noticed that close to the place where I had fallen, a sheep fair was being held, and a bystander told me that every day horses or cattle were sold somewhere in the town.

Who acts: I, bystander · What happens: notice, fall, hold, tell, sell · To what, where: sheep fair, me, day horses, town · 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 (I, bystander), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 noticed	expl
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 noticed	nsubj
3	noticed	notice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	ADV	_	5 close	advmod
5	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 noticed	xcomp
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 place	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 place	det
8	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 close	obl
9	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	12 fallen	advmod
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 fallen	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 fallen	aux
12	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 place	acl:relcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 held	punct
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 fair	det
15	sheep	sheep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 fair	amod
16	fair	fair	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 held	nsubj:pass
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 held	aux:pass
18	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 held	aux:pass
19	held	hold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 noticed	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 told	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 told	cc
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 bystander	det
23	bystander	bystander	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 told	nsubj
24	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 noticed	conj
25	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 told	iobj
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 sold	mark
27	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	28 day	det
28	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 horses	compound
29	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 sold	nsubj:pass
30	or	or	CCONJ	_	31 cattle	cc
31	cattle	cattle	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 horses	conj
32	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 sold	aux:pass
33	sold	sell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 told	ccomp
34	somewhere	somewhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	33 sold	advmod
35	in	in	ADP	_	37 town	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 town	det
37	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 sold	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 noticed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	notice	past	I			there	close property	vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	fall	past · perfect	I					vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	hold	past · passive		a sheep fair				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	tell speech: assert	past	a bystander		me			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
5	sell	past · passive		day horses or cattle		the town	somewhere property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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: «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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