The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 101

He was sitting on a bench outside an inn, when he heard two men who were loading their mules talking about the Groac’h of the island of Lok.

Who acts: fortune, two men, mules · What happens: sit, hear, load, talk · To what, where: bench, mules · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fortune, two men, mules), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sitting	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sitting	aux
3	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 bench	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bench	det
6	bench	bench	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sitting	obl
7	outside	outside	ADP	_	9 inn	case
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 inn	det
9	inn	inn	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bench	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 heard	punct
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 heard	advmod
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 heard	nsubj
13	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sitting	parataxis
14	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 men	nummod
15	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 loading	nsubj
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 loading	nsubj
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 loading	aux
18	loading	load	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 heard	ccomp
19	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 mules	nmod:poss
20	mules	mule	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 loading	obj
21	talking	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 mules	acl
22	about	about	ADP	_	24 Groac’h	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Groac’h	det
24	Groac’h	Groac'h	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 talking	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 island	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 island	det
27	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 Groac’h	nmod
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 Lok	case
29	Lok	Lok	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 island	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sitting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit	past · progressive	fortune		a bench outside a inn		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bench=Location
2	hear	past	fortune				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	load	past · progressive	two men	beggars's mules			vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent mule=Destination
4	talk	gerund	beggars's mules not said here			about the Groac’h of the island of Lok	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about groac'h=Topic

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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