More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 10, sentence 36

Anyhow down he sat by the blazing fire, and as he sat he waxed hungry, though it was a long way off supper-time yet.

Who acts: fairy, fire · What happens: sit, blaze, wax, be · To what, where: long way

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 (fairy, fire), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg14241:884): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Anyhow	anyhow	ADV	_	4 sat	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	by	by	ADP	_	8 fire	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 fire	det
7	blazing	blaze	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 fire	amod
8	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sat	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 waxed	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 waxed	cc
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 sat	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 sat	nsubj
13	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 waxed	advcl
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 waxed	nsubj
15	waxed	wax	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sat	conj
16	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 waxed	xcomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 way	punct
18	though	though	SCONJ	_	23 way	mark
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 way	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 way	cop
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 way	det
22	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 way	amod
23	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 waxed	advcl
24	off	off	ADP	_	27 time	case
25	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 time	compound
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 supper	punct
27	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 way	nmod
28	yet	yet	ADV	_	23 way	advmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	fairy			by the blazing fire; anyhow, down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by fire=Location
2	blaze	gerund					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	sit	past	fairy				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	wax	past	fairy			hungry property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is a	past	fire	a long way	yet; time		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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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