The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 43

At last, after much thinking, he hit upon a plan.

Who acts: Peter · What happens: hit

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	At	at	ADP	_	6 thinking	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 thinking	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 thinking	punct
4	after	after	ADP	_	6 thinking	case
5	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 thinking	amod
6	thinking	thinking	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hit	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 thinking	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 hit	nsubj
9	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	upon	upon	ADP	_	12 plan	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 plan	det
12	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hit	obl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 hit	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hit	past	Peter					upon a plan; at last much thinking	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at thinking=Patient

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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