The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 2

He soon gave up the task, and sat sulkily in the corner, wondering what punishment the ogress would find for him, and why she had set him to do such an impossible thing.

Who acts: man, ogress · What happens: give up, sit, wonder, find, set, do · To what, where: task, corner, ogress, impossible thing · 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, ogress), 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	3 gave	nsubj
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 gave	advmod
3	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 gave	compound:prt
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 task	det
6	task	task	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gave	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 sat	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 sat	cc
9	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 gave	conj
10	sulkily	sulkily	ADV	_	9 sat	advmod
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 corner	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 corner	det
13	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sat	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 wondering	punct
15	wondering	wonder	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 sat	advcl
16	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	21 find	obl
17	punishment	punishment	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 what	nsubj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 ogress	det
19	ogress	ogress	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 find	nsubj
20	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 find	aux
21	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 wondering	ccomp
22	for	for	ADP	_	23 him	case
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 find	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 set	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 set	cc
26	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	29 set	advmod
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 set	nsubj:pass
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 set	aux
29	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 gave	conj
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 set	obj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 do	mark
32	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 set	advcl
33	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	36 thing	det:predet
34	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 thing	det
35	impossible	impossible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 thing	amod
36	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 do	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	give up	past	man	the task		soon property	vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent task=Source
2	sit	past	man not said here		the corner	sulkily property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in corner=Location
3	wonder speech: ask	gerund	man not said here				vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	find	would	the ogress			for man	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for he=Beneficiary
5	set	past · perfect · passive		ogress			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme he=Destination
6	do	to-infinitive		such impossible thing			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=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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