The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 14

He followed the road that led from his father’s cottage to the hill, where he sat down to rest, saying to himself: “I am sure my brothers must have stopped here, and I will do the same.”

Who acts: man, road · What happens: follow, lead, sit down, rest, say, be · To what, where: road, cottage, man, brothers, same · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, road), 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 followed	nsubj
2	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 road	det
4	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 followed	obj
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 led	nsubj
6	led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 road	acl:relcl
7	from	from	ADP	_	11 cottage	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 father	nmod:poss
9	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cottage	nmod:poss
10	’s	's	PART	_	9 father	case
11	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 led	obl
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 hill	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 hill	det
14	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 led	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 sat	punct
16	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	18 sat	advmod
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 sat	nsubj
18	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 hill	acl:relcl
19	down	down	ADP	_	18 sat	compound:prt
20	to	to	PART	_	21 rest	mark
21	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 sat	advcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 saying	punct
23	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 rest	advcl
24	to	to	ADP	_	25 himself	case
25	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	23 saying	obl
26	:	:	PUNCT	_	30 sure	punct
27	“	"	PUNCT	_	30 sure	punct
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 sure	nsubj
29	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 sure	cop
30	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 followed	parataxis
31	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 brothers	nmod:poss
32	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 stopped	nsubj:pass
33	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 stopped	aux
34	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	35 stopped	aux
35	stopped	stop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 sure	ccomp
36	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	35 stopped	advmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 do	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 do	cc
39	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	41 do	nsubj
40	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 do	aux
41	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 sure	ccomp
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 same	det
43	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 do	obj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	41 do	punct
45	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 followed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	follow	past	man	the road				tree rules
2	lead	past	the road			man's father's cottage	to the hill	vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to hill=Patient
3	sit down	past	man					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	rest	to-infinitive	man not said here					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	say speech: assert	gerund	man not said here		man			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient
6	is in a quote	present	man				sure property	tree rules
7	stop in a quote	must · perfect · passive		my brothers		here		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality
8	do in a quote	future	man	the same				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent same=Eventuality

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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