The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 9

It happened that an old sick man who lived near by had begged to be carried out and to be laid at the foot of the wall so that the beams of the rising sun might fall upon him, and he would be able to talk with his friends as they passed by to their work.

Who acts: It, old sick man, beams, sun · What happens: happen, live, beg, carry out, lay, rise · To what, where: foot, rising sun

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, old sick man, beams, sun), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 happened	nsubj
2	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 begged	mark
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 man	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 man	amod
6	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 man	amod
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 begged	nsubj
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 lived	nsubj
9	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 man	acl:relcl
10	near	near	ADV	_	9 lived	advmod
11	by	by	ADP	_	9 lived	obl
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 begged	aux
13	begged	beg	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 happened	advcl
14	to	to	PART	_	16 carried	mark
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 carried	aux:pass
16	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 begged	xcomp
17	out	out	ADP	_	16 carried	compound:prt
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 laid	cc
19	to	to	PART	_	21 laid	mark
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 laid	aux:pass
21	laid	lay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 carried	conj
22	at	at	ADP	_	24 foot	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 foot	det
24	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 laid	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 wall	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 wall	det
27	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 foot	nmod
28	so	so	SCONJ	_	37 fall	mark
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	37 fall	mark
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 beams	det
31	beams	beam	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 fall	nsubj
32	of	of	ADP	_	35 sun	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 sun	det
34	rising	rise	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	35 sun	amod
35	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 beams	nmod
36	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 fall	aux
37	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 laid	advcl
38	upon	upon	ADP	_	39 him	case
39	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 fall	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 able	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 able	cc
42	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 able	nsubj
43	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	45 able	aux
44	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	45 able	cop
45	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 happened	conj
46	to	to	PART	_	47 talk	mark
47	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 able	xcomp
48	with	with	ADP	_	50 friends	case
49	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	50 friends	nmod:poss
50	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 talk	obl
51	as	as	SCONJ	_	53 passed	mark
52	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 passed	nsubj
53	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 talk	advcl
54	by	by	ADP	_	57 work	case
55	to	to	ADP	_	57 work	case
56	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	57 work	nmod:poss
57	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 passed	obl
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 happened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	happen	past	It				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	live	past	a old sick man			near property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	beg speech: request	past · perfect	a old sick man				vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	carry out not said to happen	to-infinitive · passive	a old sick man not said here				vn act-114 «NP V NP»
5	lay	to-infinitive · passive	a old sick man not said here		the foot of the wall		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: at foot=Destination
6	rise	gerund					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	fall	might	the beams of the rising sun			upon sun	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon he=Location
8	is	would	sun			able property	tree rules
9	talk	to-infinitive	sun not said here			with sun's friends	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with friend=Co-Agent
10	pass	past	beams = beam			by beams's work	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by work=Location
11	beam			the rising sun			nom beam «communication transitive»: of=patient
12	work		beams = beam				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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