More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 7, sentence 119

When he reached the wood, he laid himself down to think what course he would follow, for he knew how weak he was compared to those he had undertaken to kill.

Who acts: John, course · What happens: reach, lay down, think, follow, know, compare · To what, where: wood, John · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, 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 (John, course), 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	SCONJ	_	3 reached	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 reached	nsubj
3	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 laid	advcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 wood	det
5	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 reached	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 reached	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 laid	nsubj
8	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	8 laid	obj
10	down	down	ADP	_	8 laid	compound:prt
11	to	to	PART	_	12 think	mark
12	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 laid	advcl
13	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	14 course	det
14	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 follow	nsubj
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 follow	nsubj
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 follow	aux
17	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 think	ccomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 knew	punct
19	for	for	SCONJ	_	21 knew	mark
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 knew	nsubj
21	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 follow	conj
22	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	23 weak	advmod
23	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 knew	xcomp
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 compared	nsubj:pass
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 compared	aux:pass
26	compared	compare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 weak	advcl
27	to	to	ADP	_	28 those	case
28	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	26 compared	obl
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 undertaken	nsubj
30	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 undertaken	aux
31	undertaken	undertake	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	28 those	acl:relcl
32	to	to	PART	_	33 kill	mark
33	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 undertaken	xcomp
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 laid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	reach	past	John	the wood		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent wood=Theme
2	lay down	past	John	John		vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Result
3	think speech: other	to-infinitive	John not said here			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	follow	would	what course			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	know	past	John		weak property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	compare	past · passive		John	to those	vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
7	undertake	past · perfect	John			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
8	kill	to-infinitive	John not said here			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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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