More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 7, sentence 132

They sat down on a log to breathe, rest, and recover themselves.

Who acts: giants · What happens: sit down, breathe, rest, recover · To what, where: log, giants

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 (giants), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sat	nsubj
2	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	down	down	ADP	_	2 sat	compound:prt
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 log	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 log	det
6	log	log	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sat	obl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 breathe	mark
8	breathe	breathe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 sat	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 rest	punct
10	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 breathe	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 recover	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 recover	cc
13	recover	recover	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 breathe	conj
14	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	13 recover	obj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	sit down	past	giants = giant		a log	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on log=Location
2	breathe	to-infinitive	giants = giant not said here			vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	rest	infinitive	giants = giant not said here			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	recover	infinitive	giants = giant not said here	giants = giant		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=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: «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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