The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 109
Not in the open space he was in, for that was bare and cold, and though he had walked a long way that day, and was tired, he dragged himself up, and went on seeking for a shelter.
Who acts: beggar, that · What happens: be, walk, drag up, go, seek · To what, where: open space, long way, beggar
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 (beggar, that), 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 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 space | advmod |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 space | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 space | det |
| 4 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 space | amod |
| 5 | space | space | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 in | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 in | cop |
| 8 | in | in | ADV | _ | 5 space | acl:relcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 bare | punct |
| 10 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 13 bare | mark |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 bare | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 bare | cop |
| 13 | bare | bare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 space | parataxis |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 cold | cc |
| 15 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 bare | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 dragged | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 dragged | cc |
| 18 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 21 walked | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 walked | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 walked | aux |
| 21 | walked | walk | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 33 dragged | advcl |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 way | det |
| 23 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 way | amod |
| 24 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 walked | obl |
| 25 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 day | det |
| 26 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 way | obl:unmarked |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 tired | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 tired | cc |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 tired | cop |
| 30 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 walked | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 walked | punct |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 dragged | nsubj |
| 33 | dragged | drag | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 bare | conj |
| 34 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 33 dragged | obj |
| 35 | up | up | ADP | _ | 33 dragged | compound:prt |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 went | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 went | cc |
| 38 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 dragged | conj |
| 39 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 40 seeking | mark |
| 40 | seeking | seek | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 38 went | advcl |
| 41 | for | for | ADP | _ | 43 shelter | case |
| 42 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 shelter | det |
| 43 | shelter | shelter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 seeking | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 space | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | beggar | the open space not said here | in property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | past | that | bare property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | that not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | walk | past · perfect | beggar | a long way | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is | past | beggar not said here | tired property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | drag up | past | beggar | beggar | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme | ||||
| 7 | go | past | beggar not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 8 | seek | gerund | beggar not said here | for a shelter | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for shelter=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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