More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 9, sentence 25

He found he was in a great hall with three chairs in it--one big, one middling, and one little chair; and he thought he would like to sit down and rest and look about him; so he sat down on the big chair.

Who acts: Scrapefoot, one · What happens: find, be, middling, think, like, sit down · To what, where: great hall, big chair · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Scrapefoot, one), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 found	nsubj
2	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 hall	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 hall	cop
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 hall	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 hall	det
7	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 hall	amod
8	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 found	ccomp
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 chairs	case
10	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 chairs	nummod
11	chairs	chair	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 hall	nmod
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 it	case
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 chairs	nmod
14	--	--	PUNCT	_	19 middling	punct
15	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 middling	nsubj
16	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 middling	amod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 middling	punct
18	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 middling	nummod
19	middling	middling	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hall	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 chair	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 chair	cc
22	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 chair	nummod
23	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 chair	amod
24	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 found	advcl
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 thought	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 thought	cc
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 thought	nsubj
28	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 found	conj
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 like	nsubj
30	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 like	aux
31	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 thought	ccomp
32	to	to	PART	_	33 sit	mark
33	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 like	xcomp
34	down	down	ADP	_	33 sit	compound:prt
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 rest	cc
36	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 sit	conj
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 look	cc
38	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 rest	conj
39	about	about	ADP	_	40 him	case
40	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 look	obl
41	;	;	PUNCT	_	44 sat	punct
42	so	so	ADV	_	44 sat	advmod
43	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 sat	nsubj
44	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 found	parataxis
45	down	down	ADP	_	44 sat	compound:prt
46	on	on	ADP	_	49 chair	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 chair	det
48	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 chair	amod
49	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 sat	obl
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	find	past	Scrapefoot			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	Scrapefoot	a great hall and big one middling	with three chairs in nose	tree rules
3	middling		one			tree rules
4	think speech: other	past	Scrapefoot			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	like	would	Scrapefoot			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6	sit down not said to happen	to-infinitive	Scrapefoot not said here			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	rest	infinitive	Scrapefoot not said here			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	look	infinitive	Scrapefoot not said here		about Scrapefoot	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent about he=Theme
9	sit down	past	Scrapefoot	the big chair		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on chair=Location

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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