The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 85

So he went up a hill and set up two forks on the top, and while he was doing this he saw a scholar coming towards him, whose clothes were tattered.

Who acts: reason, scholar · What happens: go up, set up, do, see, come, tatter · To what, where: hill, two forks, top, this, scholar, clothes

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (reason, scholar), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 went	compound:prt
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 hill	det
6	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 set	cc
8	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 went	conj
9	up	up	ADP	_	8 set	compound:prt
10	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 forks	nummod
11	forks	fork	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 set	obj
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 top	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 top	det
14	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 forks	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 saw	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 saw	cc
17	while	while	SCONJ	_	20 doing	mark
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 doing	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 doing	aux
20	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 saw	advcl
21	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 doing	obj
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 saw	nsubj
23	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 scholar	det
25	scholar	scholar	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 saw	obj
26	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 scholar	acl
27	towards	towards	ADP	_	28 him	case
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 coming	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 tattered	punct
30	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	31 clothes	nmod:poss
31	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	33 tattered	nsubj:pass
32	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 tattered	aux:pass
33	tattered	tatter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 scholar	acl:relcl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go up	past	reason	a hill			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	set up	infinitive	reason not said here	two forks	the top		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent fork=Theme on top=Destination
3	do	past · progressive	reason	this			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality
4	see	past	reason	a scholar			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer scholar=Stimulus
5	come	gerund	a scholar not said here			towards reason	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme towards he=Initial_Location
6	tatter	past · passive		clothes			vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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