The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 36

He had enjoyed himself by the way, and taken his own time, until he actually reached the little brook in the valley which it had cost him some trouble to find.

Who acts: Peter · What happens: enjoy, take, reach, cost, find · To what, where: Peter, little brook, valley

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Peter), 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	3 enjoyed	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 enjoyed	aux
3	enjoyed	enjoy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 enjoyed	obj
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 way	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 way	det
7	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 enjoyed	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 taken	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 taken	cc
10	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 enjoyed	conj
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 time	nmod:poss
12	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 time	amod
13	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 taken	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 reached	punct
15	until	until	SCONJ	_	18 reached	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 reached	nsubj
17	actually	actually	ADV	_	18 reached	advmod
18	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 taken	advcl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 brook	det
20	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 brook	amod
21	brook	brook	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 reached	obj
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 valley	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 valley	det
24	valley	valley	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 reached	obl
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 cost	nsubj:pass
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 cost	nsubj:pass
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 cost	aux
28	cost	cost	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 valley	acl:relcl
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 cost	iobj
30	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	31 trouble	det
31	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 cost	obj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 find	mark
33	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 trouble	acl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 enjoyed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	enjoy	past · perfect	Peter	Peter				by the way	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer himself=Stimulus
2	take	participle	Peter not said here				time		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	reach	past	Peter	the little brook		the valley		actually property	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent brook=Theme
4	cost	past · perfect · passive		the valley	Peter				tree rules
5	find	to-infinitive							vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: 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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