The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 94

As he was passing the long line of stones, he saw Bernez working with a chisel on the tallest of them all.

Who acts: sun, Bernez · What happens: pass, see, work · To what, where: long line, Bernez

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun, Bernez), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	4 passing	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 passing	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 passing	aux
4	passing	pass	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 saw	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 line	det
6	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 line	amod
7	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 passing	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 stones	case
9	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 line	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 passing	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 saw	nsubj
12	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	Bernez	Bernez	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 saw	obj
14	working	work	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 saw	xcomp
15	with	with	ADP	_	17 chisel	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 chisel	det
17	chisel	chisel	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 working	obl
18	on	on	ADP	_	20 tallest	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 tallest	det
20	tallest	tall	ADJ	Degree=Sup	14 working	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 them	case
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 tallest	nmod
23	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 them	nmod:unmarked
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	pass	past · progressive	sun	the long line of stones		vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme line=Trajectory
2	see	past	sun	Bernez		tree rules
3	work	gerund	Bernez not said here		with a chisel; on the tallest of Bernez	vn cooperate-73.1-3 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.theme»: agent=Agent with chisel=Co-Agent on tall=Theme

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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