The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 106

Towards evening the young man reached an open space in the wood, and by this time he thought he would like some supper.

Who acts: young man, beggar · What happens: reach, think, like · To what, where: open space, wood, time, supper

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young man, beggar), 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	Towards	toward	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 evening	compound
2	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 reached	obl:unmarked
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 man	det
4	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 man	amod
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 reached	nsubj
6	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 space	det
8	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 space	amod
9	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 reached	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 wood	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 wood	det
12	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 reached	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 like	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 like	cc
15	by	by	ADP	_	17 time	case
16	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 time	det
17	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 like	obl
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 thought	nsubj
19	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 time	acl:relcl
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 like	nsubj
21	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 like	aux
22	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 reached	conj
23	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	24 supper	det
24	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 like	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 reached	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	reach	past	the young man	a open space	the wood	evening	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent space=Theme
2	think speech: other	past	beggar	this time not said here			vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot time=Theme
3	like	would	beggar	some supper		time	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot supper=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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