The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 29

Towards evening the young man reached the cave where his brothers had met their deaths, and, like them, he thought it would be a good place to sleep in.

Who acts: young man, brothers, man, cave, birds · What happens: reach, meet, think, be, sleep in, die · To what, where: cave, deaths, good place · 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 (young man, brothers, man, cave), 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	Towards	toward	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 evening	compound
2	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 reached	obl:unmarked
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 man	det
4	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 man	amod
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 reached	nsubj
6	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cave	det
8	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 reached	obj
9	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	13 met	advmod
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 brothers	nmod:poss
11	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 met	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 met	aux
13	met	meet	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 cave	acl:relcl
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 deaths	nmod:poss
15	deaths	death	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 met	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 thought	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 thought	cc
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 them	punct
19	like	like	ADP	_	20 them	case
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 thought	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 them	punct
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 thought	nsubj
23	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 reached	conj
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 place	nsubj
25	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 place	aux
26	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 place	cop
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 place	det
28	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 place	amod
29	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 thought	ccomp
30	to	to	PART	_	31 sleep	mark
31	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 place	acl
32	in	in	ADP	_	31 sleep	compound:prt
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 reached	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	reach	past	the young man	the cave	evening		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent cave=Theme
2	meet	past · perfect	man's brothers	birds's deaths			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent death=Co-Agent
3	think speech: other	past	man			like birds = bird	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is a	would	cave	a good place			tree rules
5	sleep in	to-infinitive	man not said here				vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	die		birds = bird				nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent

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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