The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 100

Tiidu stayed where he was a little longer, thinking of all the old man had told him, and the more he thought the surer he felt that the old man was right.

Who acts: Tiidu, man, old man · What happens: stay, be, think, tell, feel · To what, where: old man, Tiidu, surer · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, 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 (Tiidu, man, old 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	Tiidu	Tiidu	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 stayed	nsubj
2	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	7 little	advmod
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 little	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 little	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 little	det
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 longer	amod
8	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 stayed	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 thinking	punct
10	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 stayed	advcl
11	of	of	SCONJ	_	17 told	mark
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 told	det:predet
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 man	det
14	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 man	amod
15	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 told	nsubj:pass
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 told	aux
17	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 thinking	ccomp
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 told	iobj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 thought	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 thought	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 more	det
22	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	24 thought	advmod
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 thought	nsubj
24	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stayed	conj
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 surer	det
26	surer	surer	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 thought	obj
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 felt	nsubj
28	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 surer	acl:relcl
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 right	mark
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 man	det
31	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 man	amod
32	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 right	nsubj
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 right	cop
34	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 felt	advcl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stayed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	stay	past	Tiidu			long property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	Tiidu			little property	tree rules
3	think speech: other	gerund	Tiidu not said here				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	tell speech: assert	past · perfect · passive		the old man	Tiidu		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient he=Topic
5	think speech: other	past	man	the surer			vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot surer=Theme
6	feel	past	man	the surer not said here			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent surer=Theme
7	is	past	the old man			right property	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: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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