The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 57

One day they were returning from the market with a large sum of money in their pockets when they passed a gallows erected on the top of a hill.

Who acts: quantities · What happens: return, pass, erect, sum · To what, where: market, gallows, top, money

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 (quantities), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 returning	obl:unmarked
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 returning	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 returning	aux
5	returning	return	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 market	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 market	det
8	market	market	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 returning	obl
9	with	with	ADP	_	12 sum	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 sum	det
11	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 sum	amod
12	sum	sum	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 returning	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 money	case
14	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sum	nmod
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 pockets	case
16	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 pockets	nmod:poss
17	pockets	pocket	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 money	nmod
18	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	20 passed	advmod
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 passed	nsubj
20	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 returning	advcl
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 gallows	det
22	gallows	gallows	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 passed	obj
23	erected	erect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 gallows	acl
24	on	on	ADP	_	26 top	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 top	det
26	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 erected	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 hill	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 hill	det
29	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 top	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 returning	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	return	past · progressive	quantities = quantity		the market	day	with a large sum of money in quantities's pockets	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from market=Initial_Location
2	pass	past	quantities = quantity	a gallows				vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme gallows=Trajectory
3	erect	participle		a gallows not said here	the top of a hill			vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	sum			money in quantities's pockets				nom sum «possession transitive»: of=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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