The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 29

He walked on through the streets, and presently he reached the house of a weaver who was standing at his door, resting from his work.

Who acts: man, weaver · What happens: walk on, reach, stand, rest, work · To what, where: streets, house, door, work

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, weaver), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 walked	nsubj
2	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADV	_	2 walked	advmod
4	through	through	ADP	_	6 streets	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 streets	det
6	streets	street	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 walked	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 reached	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 reached	cc
9	presently	presently	ADV	_	11 reached	advmod
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 reached	nsubj
11	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 walked	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 house	det
13	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 reached	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 weaver	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 weaver	det
16	weaver	weaver	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 house	nmod
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 standing	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 standing	aux
19	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 weaver	acl:relcl
20	at	at	ADP	_	22 door	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 door	nmod:poss
22	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 standing	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 resting	punct
24	resting	rest	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 standing	conj
25	from	from	ADP	_	27 work	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 work	nmod:poss
27	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 resting	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 walked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	walk on	past	man		the streets		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through street=Trajectory
2	reach	past	man	the house of a weaver		presently property	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent house=Theme
3	stand	past · progressive	a weaver		man's door		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at door=Location
4	rest	gerund	a weaver not said here		man's work		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	work		man				nom work «act intransitive»: poss=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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