The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 21
However, he felt he had now rested long enough, and that he had better be going his way.
Who acts: man · What happens: feel, rest, have, go · To what, where: way
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), 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 4 felt | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 felt | nsubj |
| 4 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 rested | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 rested | aux |
| 7 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 rested | advmod |
| 8 | rested | rest | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 felt | ccomp |
| 9 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 rested | advmod |
| 10 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 9 long | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 had | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 had | cc |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 had | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 had | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 felt | conj |
| 16 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 18 going | amod |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 going | aux |
| 18 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 had | advcl |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 way | nmod:poss |
| 20 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 going | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | man | however property | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | rest | past · perfect | man | now | long property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | have | past | man | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | go | infinitive · progressive | man not said here | man's way | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=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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