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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 day | det |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 happened | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 day | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Lad | det |
| 5 | Shifty | shifty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Lad | amod |
| 6 | Lad | Lad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 happened | nsubj |
| 7 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 wandering | mark |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 wandering | aux |
| 10 | wandering | wonder | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 happened | advcl |
| 11 | over | over | ADP | _ | 13 moor | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 moor | det |
| 13 | moor | moor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 wandering | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 saw | punct |
| 15 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 saw | advmod |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 saw | nsubj |
| 17 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 happened | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 man | det |
| 19 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 saw | obj |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 sheep | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 sheep | det |
| 22 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 man | nmod |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 shoulder | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 shoulder | nmod:poss |
| 25 | shoulder | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 saw | obl |
| 26 | walking | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 shoulder | acl |
| 27 | along | along | ADP | _ | 29 road | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 road | det |
| 29 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 walking | obl |
| 30 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 led | nsubj |
| 31 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 road | acl:relcl |
| 32 | past | past | ADP | _ | 37 house | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 Rogue | det |
| 34 | Black | Black | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 Rogue | compound |
| 35 | Rogue | Rogue | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 house | nmod:poss |
| 36 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 35 Rogue | case |
| 37 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 led | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | that day | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | wonder speech: ask | to-infinitive · progressive | that day not said here | the moor | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | see | past | Lad | the man | Lad's shoulder | with the sheep | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus | ||
| 4 | walk | gerund | Lad's shoulder not said here | the road | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along road=Trajectory | ||||
| 5 | lead | past | the road | the Black Rogue's house | vn 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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