More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 5, sentence 109

And by this time, being already rather tired with dragging such a heavy weight after her, she stopped to rest for a minute, turning to make sure that her treasure was safe.

Who acts: weight, treasure · What happens: be, drag, stop, rest, turn, make · To what, where: heavy weight

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (weight, treasure), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	9 tired	cc
2	by	by	ADP	_	4 time	case
3	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 time	det
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tired	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 time	punct
6	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 tired	cop
7	already	already	ADV	_	9 tired	advmod
8	rather	rather	ADV	_	9 tired	advmod
9	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	with	with	SCONJ	_	11 dragging	mark
11	dragging	drag	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 tired	advcl
12	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	15 weight	det:predet
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 weight	det
14	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 weight	amod
15	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 dragging	obj
16	after	after	ADP	_	17 her	case
17	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 dragging	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 stopped	punct
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 stopped	nsubj
20	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 tired	parataxis
21	to	to	PART	_	22 rest	mark
22	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 stopped	xcomp
23	for	for	ADP	_	25 minute	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 minute	det
25	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 rest	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 turning	punct
27	turning	turn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 stopped	parataxis
28	to	to	PART	_	29 make	mark
29	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 turning	advcl
30	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 make	xcomp
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	35 safe	mark
32	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 treasure	nmod:poss
33	treasure	treasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 safe	nsubj
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 safe	cop
35	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 sure	ccomp
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 tired	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	gerund			time	tired property	tree rules
2	drag	gerund		such heavy weight	after weight		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weight=Theme
3	stop	past	weight				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
4	rest	to-infinitive	weight not said here		minute		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	turn	gerund					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
6	make	to-infinitive				sure property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
7	is	past	weight's treasure			safe property	tree rules
8	treasure		weight				nom treasure «possession transitive»: poss=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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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