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The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 21

That day, the Shifty Lad happened to be wandering over the moor, when he saw the man with the sheep on his shoulder walking along the road which led past the Black Rogue’s house.

Who acts: day, Lad, shoulder, road · What happens: happen, wonder, see, walk, lead · To what, where: moor, man, shoulder, road, house

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (day, Lad, shoulder, road), 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

detnsubjpunctdetamodnsubjmarkauxadvclcasedetoblpunctadvmodnsubjconjdetobjcasedetnmodcasenmod:possoblaclcasedetoblnsubjacl:relclcasedetcompoundnmod:posscaseoblpunctrootThatDETdayNOUN,PUNCTtheDETShiftyADJLadPROPNhappenedVERBtoPARTbeAUXwanderingVERBoverADPtheDETmoorNOUN,PUNCTwhenADVhePRONsawVERBtheDETmanNOUNwithADPtheDETsheepNOUNonADPhisPRONshoulderNOUNwalkingVERBalongADPtheDETroadNOUNwhichPRONledVERBpastADPtheDETBlackPROPNRoguePROPN’sPARThouseNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThatthatDETNumber=Sing PronType=Dem2 daydet
2daydayNOUNNumber=Sing7 happenednsubj
3,,PUNCT_2 daypunct
4thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art6 Laddet
5ShiftyshiftyADJDegree=Pos6 Ladamod
6LadLadPROPNNumber=Sing7 happenednsubj
7happenedhappenVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
8totoPART_10 wanderingmark
9bebeAUXVerbForm=Inf10 wanderingaux
10wanderingwonderVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part7 happenedadvcl
11overoverADP_13 moorcase
12thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art13 moordet
13moormoorNOUNNumber=Sing10 wanderingobl
14,,PUNCT_17 sawpunct
15whenwhenADVPronType=Int17 sawadvmod
16hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs17 sawnsubj
17sawseeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin7 happenedconj
18thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art19 mandet
19manmanNOUNNumber=Sing17 sawobj
20withwithADP_22 sheepcase
21thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art22 sheepdet
22sheepsheepNOUNNumber=Sing19 mannmod
23ononADP_25 shouldercase
24hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs25 shouldernmod:poss
25shouldershoulderNOUNNumber=Sing17 sawobl
26walkingwalkVERBVerbForm=Ger25 shoulderacl
27alongalongADP_29 roadcase
28thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art29 roaddet
29roadroadNOUNNumber=Sing26 walkingobl
30whichwhichPRONPronType=Rel31 lednsubj
31ledleadVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin29 roadacl:relcl
32pastpastADP_37 housecase
33thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art35 Roguedet
34BlackBlackPROPNNumber=Sing35 Roguecompound
35RogueRoguePROPNNumber=Sing37 housenmod:poss
36’s'sPART_35 Roguecase
37househouseNOUNNumber=Sing31 ledobl
38..PUNCT_7 happenedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1happenpastthat dayvn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2wonder speech: askto-infinitive · progressivethat day not said herethe moorvn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3seepastLadthe manLad's shoulderwith the sheepvn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus
4walkgerundLad's shoulder not said herethe roadvn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along road=Trajectory
5leadpastthe roadthe Black Rogue's housevn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent past house=Destination

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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