More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 9, sentence 27

So then he went to the little chair and sat down in it, and it was so soft and warm and comfortable that Scrapefoot was quite happy; but all at once it broke to pieces under him and he couldn't put it together again!

Who acts: Scrapefoot, nose · What happens: go, sit down, be, break, not put · To what, where: little chair, nose

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, nose), 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	_	4 went	advmod
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	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	_	8 chair	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 chair	det
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 chair	amod
8	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 sat	cc
10	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
11	down	down	ADP	_	10 sat	compound:prt
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 it	case
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 sat	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 soft	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 soft	cc
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 soft	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 soft	cop
18	so	so	ADV	_	19 soft	advmod
19	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 sat	conj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 warm	cc
21	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 soft	conj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 comfortable	cc
23	comfortable	comfortable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 soft	conj
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 happy	mark
25	Scrapefoot	Scrapefoot	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 happy	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 happy	cop
27	quite	quite	ADV	_	28 happy	advmod
28	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 soft	advcl
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 broke	punct
30	but	but	CCONJ	_	35 broke	cc
31	all	all	ADV	_	33 once	advmod
32	at	at	ADP	_	33 once	case
33	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	35 broke	advmod
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 broke	nsubj
35	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	parataxis
36	to	to	ADP	_	37 pieces	case
37	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 broke	obl
38	under	under	ADP	_	39 him	case
39	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 broke	obl
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 put	cc
41	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 put	nsubj
42	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	44 put	aux
43	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	44 put	advmod
44	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 broke	conj
45	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 put	obj
46	together	together	ADV	_	44 put	advmod
47	again	again	ADV	_	44 put	advmod
48	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	Scrapefoot		the little chair	then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to chair=Initial_Location
2	sit down	past	Scrapefoot not said here		nose			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in it=Location
3	is	past	nose				soft property	tree rules
4	be		nose not said here					tree rules
5	be		nose not said here					tree rules
6	is	past	Scrapefoot				happy property	tree rules
7	break	past	nose				to pieces; under Scrapefoot; once property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under he=Location
8	not put	could	Scrapefoot	nose		again	together property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal

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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