The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 89

Presently it grew late, but still Moti wandered on until suddenly in the gathering darkness he came right upon a tiger who was contentedly eating his horse.

Who acts: mud, Moti, tiger · What happens: grow, wander, come, eat · To what, where: gathering darkness, horse

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mud, Moti, tiger), 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	Presently	presently	ADV	_	3 grew	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 grew	nsubj
3	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 grew	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 wandered	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 wandered	cc
7	still	still	ADV	_	9 wandered	advmod
8	Moti	Moti	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 wandered	nsubj
9	wandered	wander	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 grew	conj
10	on	on	ADV	_	9 wandered	advmod
11	until	until	ADP	_	12 suddenly	case
12	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	9 wandered	obl
13	in	in	ADP	_	16 darkness	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 darkness	det
15	gathering	gathering	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 darkness	compound
16	darkness	darkness	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wandered	obl
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 came	nsubj
18	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 darkness	acl:relcl
19	right	right	ADV	_	22 tiger	advmod
20	upon	upon	ADP	_	22 tiger	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 tiger	det
22	tiger	tiger	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 came	obl
23	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 eating	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 eating	aux
25	contentedly	contentedly	ADV	_	26 eating	advmod
26	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 tiger	acl:relcl
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 horse	nmod:poss
28	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 eating	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past	mud				late, presently property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	wander	past	Moti		the gathering darkness	still		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in darkness=Trajectory
3	come	past	Moti	the gathering darkness not said here			upon a tiger	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location darkness=Theme
4	eat	past · progressive	a tiger	Moti's horse			contentedly property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient

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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