The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 83

At length they wandered into a forest, and being very tired, sat down under a tree to eat some bread that they had brought with them.

Who acts: faults · What happens: wander, be, sit down, eat, bring · To what, where: length, tree, bread, faults

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (faults), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 length	case
2	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wandered	obl
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wandered	nsubj
4	wandered	wander	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 forest	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 forest	det
7	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wandered	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 tired	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 tired	cc
10	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 tired	cop
11	very	very	ADV	_	12 tired	advmod
12	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 wandered	advcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 sat	punct
14	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 wandered	conj
15	down	down	ADP	_	14 sat	compound:prt
16	under	under	ADP	_	18 tree	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 tree	det
18	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sat	obl
19	to	to	PART	_	20 eat	mark
20	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 sat	advcl
21	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	22 bread	det
22	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 eat	obj
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 brought	mark
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 brought	nsubj:pass
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 brought	aux
26	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 eat	advcl
27	with	with	ADP	_	28 them	case
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 brought	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 wandered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	wander	past	faults = fault		length	into a forest	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into forest=Destination
2	is	gerund	faults = fault not said here			tired property	tree rules
3	sit down	past	faults = fault not said here		a tree		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under tree=Location
4	eat	to-infinitive	faults = fault not said here	some bread			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Patient
5	bring	past · perfect · passive		faults = fault		with heads = head	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: subject=Theme

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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