The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 130

When they came to the mill Walter immediately asked if there had been any wolves in the neighbourhood lately.

Who acts: Wolves · What happens: come, ask, be · To what, where: mill

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 (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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 came	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 asked	advcl
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 mill	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 mill	det
6	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl
7	Walter	Walter	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 mill	appos
8	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	9 asked	advmod
9	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	if	if	SCONJ	_	13 been	mark
11	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	13 been	expl
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 been	aux
13	been	be	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 asked	ccomp
14	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	15 wolves	det
15	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 been	nsubj
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 neighbourhood	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 neighbourhood	det
18	neighbourhood	neighbourhood	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 wolves	nmod
19	lately	lately	ADV	_	13 been	advmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	Wolves = wolf	the mill		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to mill=Initial_Location
2	ask speech: ask	past			immediately property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	be a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	any wolves in the neighbourhood	there	lately property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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