The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 86

On he walked, and on and on, till as dusk was falling he came to a great river, and on the bank there were sticks lying about.

Who acts: king, dusk, sticks · What happens: walk, fall, come, lie · To what, where: great river

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, dusk, sticks), 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	On	on	SCONJ	_	3 walked	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 walked	nsubj
3	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 lying	advcl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 on	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 on	cc
6	on	on	ADV	_	3 walked	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 on	cc
8	on	on	ADV	_	6 on	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 falling	punct
10	till	till	SCONJ	_	14 falling	mark
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 falling	mark
12	dusk	dusk	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 falling	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 falling	aux
14	falling	fall	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 walked	advcl
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 came	nsubj
16	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 falling	ccomp
17	to	to	ADP	_	20 river	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 river	det
19	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 river	amod
20	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 came	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 were	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 were	cc
23	on	on	ADP	_	25 bank	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 bank	det
25	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 were	obl
26	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	27 were	expl
27	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 lying	aux
28	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 lying	nsubj
29	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
30	about	about	ADV	_	29 lying	advmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	29 lying	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	walk	past	king			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	fall	past · progressive	dusk			vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	come	past	king	a great river		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to river=Initial_Location
4	lie	past · progressive	sticks		about property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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