The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 98
Here he sat down to rest, and pulling out his wallet prepared to eat his dinner.
Who acts: king, pulling · What happens: sit down, rest, pull out, prepare, eat · To what, where: wallet, dinner
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 (king, pulling), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 sat | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sat | nsubj |
| 3 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | down | down | ADP | _ | 3 sat | compound:prt |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 rest | mark |
| 6 | rest | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 sat | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 prepared | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 prepared | cc |
| 9 | pulling | pull | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 prepared | csubj |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 pulling | compound:prt |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 wallet | nmod:poss |
| 12 | wallet | wallet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pulling | obj |
| 13 | prepared | prepare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sat | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 eat | mark |
| 15 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 prepared | xcomp |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 dinner | nmod:poss |
| 17 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 eat | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit down | past | king | here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | rest | to-infinitive | king not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | pull out | gerund | king's wallet | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | prepare | past | pulling | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute | |||||
| 5 | eat not said to happen | to-infinitive | pulling not said here | king's dinner | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dinner=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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