The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 25

One day when the king was out hunting he rode past the place where the queen lay buried, and there he saw a briar growing with two blossoms on it.

Who acts: man, queen, briar · What happens: hunt, ride, lie, bury, see, grow · To what, where: place, briar

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, queen, briar), 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 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hunting	obl:unmarked
3	when	when	SCONJ	_	6 was	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 king	det
5	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 was	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 hunting	aux
7	out	out	ADP	_	6 was	compound:prt
8	hunting	hunt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 rode	advcl
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 rode	nsubj
10	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	past	past	ADP	_	13 place	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 place	det
13	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 rode	obl
14	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	17 lay	advmod
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 queen	det
16	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 lay	nsubj
17	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 place	acl:relcl
18	buried	bury	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 lay	xcomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 saw	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 saw	cc
21	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	23 saw	expl
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	10 rode	conj
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 briar	det
25	briar	briar	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 saw	obj
26	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 briar	acl
27	with	with	ADP	_	29 blossoms	case
28	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 blossoms	nummod
29	blossoms	blossom	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 growing	obl
30	on	on	ADP	_	31 it	case
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 growing	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 rode	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hunt	past · progressive	man not said here			day		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	ride	past	man		the place			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent past place=Trajectory
3	lie	past	the queen					tree rules
4	bury	participle	the queen not said here					vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	see	past	man	a briar	there			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer briar=Stimulus
6	grow	gerund	a briar not said here		briar		with two blossoms	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on it=Location

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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