The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 84

When he got quite clear of the forest he walked on through a lovely valley till he reached a little house thatched with rushes, and he went in to rest for he was very tired.

Who acts: brook · What happens: get, walk on, reach, thatch, go in, rest · To what, where: lovely valley, little house

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brook), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 got	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 got	nsubj
3	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 walked	advcl
4	quite	quite	ADV	_	5 clear	advmod
5	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 got	xcomp
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 forest	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 forest	det
8	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 clear	obl
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 walked	nsubj
10	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	on	on	ADP	_	10 walked	compound:prt
12	through	through	ADP	_	15 valley	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 valley	det
14	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 valley	amod
15	valley	valley	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 walked	obl
16	till	till	SCONJ	_	18 reached	mark
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 reached	nsubj
18	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 walked	advcl
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 house	det
20	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 house	amod
21	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 reached	obj
22	thatched	thatch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 house	acl
23	with	with	ADP	_	24 rushes	case
24	rushes	rush	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 thatched	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 went	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 went	cc
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 went	nsubj
28	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 walked	conj
29	in	in	ADV	_	28 went	advmod
30	to	to	PART	_	31 rest	mark
31	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 went	xcomp
32	for	for	ADP	_	36 tired	case
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 tired	nsubj
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 tired	cop
35	very	very	ADV	_	36 tired	advmod
36	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 rest	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 walked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	get	past	brook			clear property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	walk on	past	brook		a lovely valley		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through valley=Trajectory
3	reach	past	brook	a little house			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent house=Theme
4	thatch	participle		a little house not said here		with rushes	vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with rush=Theme
5	go in	past	brook				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	rest	to-infinitive	brook not said here				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	is	past	brook			tired 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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