The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 84

But so absorbed was he in the chase that he did not notice for some time that he was now deep in the forest, in a place where he had never been before.

Who acts: boy · What happens: absorb, be, not notice, not be · To what, where: chase, place, forest

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	8 chase	cc
2	so	so	ADV	_	3 absorbed	advmod
3	absorbed	absorb	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 chase	advcl
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 chase	cop
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 chase	nsubj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 chase	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 chase	det
8	chase	chase	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 notice	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 notice	nsubj
11	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 notice	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 notice	advmod
13	notice	notice	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 chase	acl
14	for	for	ADP	_	16 time	case
15	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	16 time	det
16	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 notice	obl
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 deep	mark
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 deep	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 deep	cop
20	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 deep	advmod
21	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 notice	advcl
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 forest	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 forest	det
24	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 deep	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 place	punct
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 place	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 place	det
28	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 notice	obl
29	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	34 before	advmod
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 before	nsubj
31	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 before	aux
32	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	34 before	advmod
33	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	34 before	cop
34	before	before	ADV	_	28 place	advmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 chase	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	absorb	participle	boy not said here					vn absorb-39.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Goal
2	is	past	boy		the chase			tree rules
3	not notice	past · do-support	boy	the chase not said here	a place	time		vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer chase=Stimulus
4	is	past	boy		the forest	now	deep property	tree rules
5	not is	past · perfect	boy				before 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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