The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 54

He sat down under a shady tree, and watched the passers-by, but after a little he began to feel rather lonely, for he knew nobody and nobody knew him.

Who acts: Tiidu, nobody · What happens: sit down, watch, begin, feel, know · To what, where: shady tree, passers, nobody, Tiidu

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, 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 (Tiidu, nobody), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sat	nsubj
2	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	down	down	ADP	_	2 sat	compound:prt
4	under	under	ADP	_	7 tree	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 tree	det
6	shady	shady	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 tree	amod
7	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sat	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 watched	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 watched	cc
10	watched	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sat	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 passers	det
12	passers	passer	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 watched	obj
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 by	punct
14	by	by	ADP	_	12 passers	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 began	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 began	cc
17	after	after	ADP	_	19 little	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 little	det
19	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 began	obl
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 began	nsubj
21	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sat	conj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 feel	mark
23	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 began	xcomp
24	rather	rather	ADV	_	25 lonely	advmod
25	lonely	lonely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 feel	xcomp
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 knew	punct
27	for	for	SCONJ	_	29 knew	mark
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 knew	nsubj
29	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 began	parataxis
30	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	29 knew	obj
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 knew	cc
32	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	33 knew	nsubj
33	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 knew	conj
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 knew	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit down	past	Tiidu		a shady tree			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under tree=Location
2	watch	past	Tiidu not said here	the passers				vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent passer=Theme
3	begin	past	Tiidu			after a little		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	feel	to-infinitive	Tiidu not said here				lonely property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
5	know	past	Tiidu	nobody				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer nobody=Stimulus
6	know	past	nobody	Tiidu				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer he=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: «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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