The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 8

He stretched down carefully and managed to reach it, and on opening it found six shillings wrapped inside.

Who acts: man · What happens: stretch down, manage, reach, open, find, wrap · To what, where: sea, six shillings

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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	2 stretched	nsubj
2	stretched	stretch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	down	down	ADP	_	2 stretched	compound:prt
4	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	2 stretched	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 managed	cc
6	managed	manage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stretched	conj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 reach	mark
8	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 managed	xcomp
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 reach	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 found	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 found	cc
12	on	on	SCONJ	_	13 opening	mark
13	opening	open	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 found	advcl
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 opening	obj
15	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stretched	conj
16	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 shillings	nummod
17	shillings	shilling	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 found	obj
18	wrapped	wrap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 shillings	acl
19	inside	inside	ADV	_	18 wrapped	advmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stretched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	stretch down	past	man		carefully property	vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	manage	past	man not said here			vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	reach	to-infinitive	man not said here	sea		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	open	gerund		sea		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
5	find	past	man not said here	six shillings		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shilling=Topic
6	wrap	participle		six shillings not said here	inside property	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=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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