The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 113

One evening the boy was sitting alone on the edge of the forest, when a man with a white beard stopped beside him.

Who acts: boy, man · What happens: sit, stop · To what, where: edge

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, man), 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 evening	nummod
2	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sitting	obl:unmarked
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 boy	det
4	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sitting	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sitting	aux
6	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	alone	alone	ADV	_	6 sitting	advmod
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 edge	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 edge	det
10	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sitting	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 forest	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 forest	det
13	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 edge	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 stopped	punct
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	22 stopped	advmod
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 man	det
17	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 stopped	nsubj
18	with	with	ADP	_	21 beard	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 beard	det
20	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 beard	amod
21	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 man	nmod
22	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sitting	parataxis
23	beside	beside	ADP	_	24 him	case
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 stopped	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 sitting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past · progressive	the boy			the edge of the forest	evening	alone property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on edge=Location
2	stop	past	a man with a white beard					beside Peronnik	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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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