The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 14
His grief was so violent, that it exhausted him, and growing hungry he looked about for something to eat.
Who acts: grief, mind · What happens: be, exhaust, grow, look, eat · To what, where: mind
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, 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 (grief, mind), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 grief | nmod:poss |
| 2 | grief | grief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 violent | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 violent | cop |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 violent | advmod |
| 5 | violent | violent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 exhausted | punct |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 exhausted | mark |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 exhausted | nsubj |
| 9 | exhausted | exhaust | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 violent | conj |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 exhausted | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 looked | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 looked | cc |
| 13 | growing | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 looked | csubj |
| 14 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 growing | xcomp |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 looked | nsubj |
| 16 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 violent | conj |
| 17 | about | about | ADV | _ | 16 looked | advmod |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 something | case |
| 19 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 16 looked | obl |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 eat | mark |
| 21 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 something | acl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 violent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | mind's grief | violent property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | exhaust | past | grief | mind | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | grow | gerund | hungry property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | look | past | mind | for something; about property | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for something=Theme | ||||
| 5 | eat | to-infinitive | mind not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «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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