More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 8, sentence 81

So down he sat and began to drink.

Who acts: landlord · What happens: sit, begin, drink

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 (landlord), 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 down	advmod
2	down	down	ADV	_	4 sat	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sat	nsubj
4	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 began	cc
6	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sat	conj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 drink	mark
8	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 began	xcomp
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	sit	past	landlord	down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	begin	past	landlord not said here		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	drink	to-infinitive	landlord not said here		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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