The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 129

Thereupon Walter began to beat his drum with all his might while they were going through the wood.

Who acts: Walter, Wolves · What happens: begin, beat, go · To what, where: drum, wood

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Walter, Wolves), 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	Thereupon	thereupon	ADV	_	3 began	advmod
2	Walter	Walter	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 began	nsubj
3	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 beat	mark
5	beat	beat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 began	xcomp
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 drum	nmod:poss
7	drum	drum	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 beat	obj
8	with	with	SCONJ	_	11 might	mark
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 might	det:predet
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 might	nmod:poss
11	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 beat	advcl
12	while	while	SCONJ	_	15 going	mark
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 going	nsubj
14	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 going	aux
15	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 might	advcl
16	through	through	ADP	_	18 wood	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 wood	det
18	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 going	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	begin	past	Walter			thereupon property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	beat	to-infinitive	Walter not said here	Walter's drum			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location drum=Theme
3	go	past · progressive	Wolves = wolf		the wood		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through wood=Initial_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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