More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 8, sentence 54

So back he went to the highroad and sat down on the bank of the river close by, looking at the water, which was cool and clear.

Who acts: rt, water · What happens: go, sit down, look, be · To what, where: highroad, bank

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rt, water), 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	So	so	ADV	_	2 back	advmod
2	back	back	ADV	_	4 went	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 highroad	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 highroad	det
7	highroad	highroad	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 sat	cc
9	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
10	down	down	ADP	_	9 sat	compound:prt
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 bank	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 bank	det
13	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sat	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 river	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 river	det
16	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 bank	nmod
17	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 river	amod
18	by	by	ADP	_	17 close	fixed
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 looking	punct
20	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 sat	advcl
21	at	at	ADP	_	23 water	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 water	det
23	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 looking	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 cool	punct
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 cool	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 cool	cop
27	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 water	acl:relcl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 clear	cc
29	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 cool	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	rt	the highroad		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to highroad=Initial_Location
2	sit down	past	rt not said here	the bank of the river		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bank=Location
3	look	gerund	rt not said here		at the water	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at water=Theme
4	is	past	the water		cool property	tree rules
5	be		the water not said here			tree rules

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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