More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 10, sentence 33
But the way was long, and the poor man was regularly dazed with the wonderful thing that had befallen him, and when he got home there was nothing in his noddle but the wish to sit down and rest.
Who acts: way, wonderful thing, man, nothing · What happens: be, daze, befall, get, sit down, rest · To what, where: poor man, man
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (way, wonderful thing, man, nothing), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 long | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 way | det |
| 3 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 long | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 long | cop |
| 5 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 dazed | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 dazed | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 man | det |
| 9 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 man | amod |
| 10 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 dazed | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 dazed | aux:pass |
| 12 | regularly | regularly | ADV | _ | 13 dazed | advmod |
| 13 | dazed | daze | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 long | conj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 thing | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 thing | det |
| 16 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 thing | amod |
| 17 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 dazed | obl |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 befallen | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 befallen | aux |
| 20 | befallen | befall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 thing | acl:relcl |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 befallen | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 was | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 was | cc |
| 24 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 26 got | advmod |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 got | nsubj |
| 26 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 was | advcl |
| 27 | home | home | ADV | _ | 26 got | advmod |
| 28 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 29 was | expl |
| 29 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 long | parataxis |
| 30 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 29 was | nsubj |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 noddle | case |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 noddle | nmod:poss |
| 33 | noddle | noddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 nothing | nmod |
| 34 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 36 wish | cc |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 wish | det |
| 36 | wish | wish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 nothing | conj |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 sit | mark |
| 38 | sit | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 nothing | acl |
| 39 | down | down | ADP | _ | 38 sit | compound:prt |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 rest | cc |
| 41 | rest | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 sit | conj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 long | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the way | long property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | daze | past · passive | the poor man | with the wonderful thing; regularly property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | befall | past · perfect | the wonderful thing | man | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | get | past | man | home property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | be | past | nothing | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | sit down | to-infinitive | nothing not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | rest | infinitive | nothing not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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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