The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 6

On and on and on he went, till suddenly he came upon a little house, with a woman standing outside it.

Who acts: son, woman · What happens: go, come, stand · To what, where: little house, house

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 (son, woman), 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	On	on	ADP	_	3 on	case
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 on	cc
3	on	on	ADV	_	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 went	cc
5	on	on	SCONJ	_	7 went	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 went	nsubj
7	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 on	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 came	punct
9	till	till	SCONJ	_	12 came	mark
10	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	12 came	advmod
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 came	nsubj
12	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 went	advcl
13	upon	upon	ADP	_	16 house	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 house	det
15	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 house	amod
16	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 came	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 woman	punct
18	with	with	ADP	_	20 woman	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 woman	det
20	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 came	obl
21	standing	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 woman	acl
22	outside	outside	ADP	_	23 it	case
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 standing	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 on	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	son			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come	past	son	a little house	with a woman; suddenly property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon house=Location
3	stand	gerund	a woman not said here	house		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent outside it=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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