More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 12, sentence 38

So down he sat and the more he thought about it the badder he felt.

Who acts: folk · What happens: sit, think, feel · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (folk), 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	_	2 down	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	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 thought	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 more	det
7	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	9 thought	advmod
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 thought	nsubj
9	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sat	conj
10	about	about	ADP	_	11 it	case
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 thought	obl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 badder	det
13	badder	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 thought	xcomp
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 felt	nsubj
15	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 badder	ccomp
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	sit	past	folk	down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	think speech: other	past	folk	about mind; bad property	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic
3	feel	past	folk		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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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