The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 56

He watched the figure for some time, till at length the old man left the crowded paths, and threw himself on the soft grass under a lime tree, which stood at some distance from where Tiidu was sitting.

Who acts: Tiidu, old man, lime tree · What happens: watch, leave, throw, stand, sit · To what, where: figure, crowded paths, length, Tiidu, soft grass

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, old man, lime tree), 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 watched	nsubj
2	watched	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 figure	det
4	figure	figure	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 watched	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 time	case
6	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	7 time	det
7	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 watched	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 left	punct
9	till	till	SCONJ	_	15 left	mark
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 length	case
11	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 left	obl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 man	det
13	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 man	amod
14	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 left	nsubj
15	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 watched	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 paths	det
17	crowded	crowded	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 paths	amod
18	paths	path	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 left	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 threw	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 threw	cc
21	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 watched	conj
22	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	21 threw	obj
23	on	on	ADP	_	26 grass	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 grass	det
25	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 grass	amod
26	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 threw	obl
27	under	under	ADP	_	30 tree	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 tree	det
29	lime	lime	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 tree	compound
30	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 threw	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 stood	punct
32	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 stood	nsubj
33	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 tree	conj
34	at	at	ADP	_	36 distance	case
35	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	36 distance	det
36	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 stood	obl
37	from	from	SCONJ	_	41 sitting	mark
38	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	41 sitting	advmod
39	Tiidu	Tiidu	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 sitting	nsubj
40	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 sitting	aux
41	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	33 stood	advcl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 watched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	watch	past	Tiidu	the figure		time		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent figure=Theme
2	leave	past	the old man	the crowded paths	length			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent path=Theme at length=Location
3	throw	past	Tiidu not said here	Tiidu	the soft grass		under a lime tree	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent himself=Theme on grass=Destination
4	stand	past	a lime tree				at some distance	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at distance=Location
5	sit	past · progressive	Tiidu					vn assuming_position-50 «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: «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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