The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 184

He followed the track, and by-and-by came on some scattered huts, beyond which lay a village.

Who acts: sun · What happens: follow, come, lie · To what, where: track, scattered huts, village

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 followed	nsubj
2	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 track	det
4	track	track	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 followed	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 came	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 came	cc
7	by	by	SCONJ	_	12 came	mark
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 by	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 came	cc
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 came	punct
11	by	by	ADP	_	12 came	case
12	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 followed	parataxis
13	on	on	ADP	_	16 huts	case
14	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	16 huts	det
15	scattered	scatter	ADJ	_	16 huts	amod
16	huts	hut	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 came	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 lay	punct
18	beyond	beyond	ADP	_	19 which	case
19	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 lay	nsubj
20	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 came	conj
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 village	det
22	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 lay	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 followed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	follow	past	sun	the track		vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent track=Theme
2	come	past			some scattered huts	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on hut=Location
3	lie	past		a village		vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location village=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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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