More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 11, sentence 9
By-and-by he stopped to rest and wipe his face; and he was very angry to think he had to work so hard only because of Adam's sin.
Who acts: man · What happens: stop, rest, wipe, be, think, have · To what, where: face · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 2 - | case |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 stopped | punct |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 stopped | cc |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 and | punct |
| 5 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 7 stopped | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 stopped | nsubj |
| 7 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 rest | mark |
| 9 | rest | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 stopped | xcomp |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 wipe | cc |
| 11 | wipe | wipe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 rest | conj |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 face | nmod:poss |
| 13 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wipe | obj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 angry | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 angry | cc |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 angry | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 angry | cop |
| 18 | very | very | ADV | _ | 19 angry | advmod |
| 19 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 stopped | parataxis |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 think | mark |
| 21 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 angry | csubj |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 had | nsubj |
| 23 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 think | ccomp |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 work | mark |
| 25 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 had | xcomp |
| 26 | so | so | ADV | _ | 27 hard | advmod |
| 27 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 25 work | advmod |
| 28 | only | only | ADV | _ | 33 sin | advmod |
| 29 | because | because | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 33 sin | case |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 because | fixed |
| 31 | Adam | Adam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 sin | nmod:poss |
| 32 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 31 Adam | case |
| 33 | sin | sin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 work | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 stopped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | past | man | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | rest | to-infinitive | man not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | wipe | infinitive | man not said here | man's face | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent face=Source | ||||
| 4 | is | past | man | angry property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | think speech: other | to-infinitive | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||||
| 6 | have | past | man | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | work | to-infinitive | man not said here | because Adam's sin; hard property | vn employment-95.3 «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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