The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 3

She was one Thursday at the market of Enniscorthy, when what did she see walking among the tubs of butter but the Dark Man, very hungry-looking, and taking a scoop out of one tub and out of another.

Who acts: nurse, one Thursday · What happens: be, see, walk, look, take, market · To what, where: one Thursday, market, tubs, scoop, one tub, Enniscorthy

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 (nurse, one Thursday), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 Thursday	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 Thursday	cop
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 Thursday	nummod
4	Thursday	Thursday	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 market	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 market	det
7	market	market	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Thursday	nmod
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 Enniscorthy	case
9	Enniscorthy	Enniscorthy	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 market	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 see	punct
11	when	when	SCONJ	_	15 see	mark
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 see	obj
13	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 see	aux
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 see	nsubj
15	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 Thursday	acl:relcl
16	walking	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 see	xcomp
17	among	among	ADP	_	19 tubs	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 tubs	det
19	tubs	tub	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 walking	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 butter	case
21	butter	butter	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 tubs	nmod
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 Man	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Man	det
24	Dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 Man	amod
25	Man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 butter	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 looking	punct
27	very	very	ADV	_	30 looking	advmod
28	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 looking	compound
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 hungry	punct
30	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 see	advcl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 taking	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 taking	cc
33	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 looking	conj
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 scoop	det
35	scoop	scoop	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 taking	obj
36	out	out	ADP	_	39 tub	case
37	of	of	ADP	_	39 tub	case
38	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	39 tub	nummod
39	tub	tub	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 taking	obl
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 another	cc
41	out	out	ADP	_	43 another	case
42	of	of	ADP	_	43 another	case
43	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	39 tub	conj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 Thursday	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	past	nurse	one Thursday	the market of Enniscorthy	tree rules
2	see	past · do-support	nurse	one Thursday		tree rules
3	walk	gerund	one Thursday not said here		the tubs of butter but the Dark Man	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among tub=Trajectory
4	look	gerund	nurse not said here			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
5	take	gerund	nurse not said here	a scoop	one tub	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent scoop=Theme out tub=Initial_Location
6	market			Enniscorthy		nom market «act transitive»: of=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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