The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 100

The notion of going to bed supperless was very unpleasant to him, and he was wondering what in the world he should do, when he chanced to meet with his old friend the bear.

Who acts: notion, fox · What happens: go, be, wonder, do, chance, meet · To what, where: bed, fox, world, bear · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (notion, fox), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 notion	det
2	notion	notion	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 unpleasant	nsubj
3	of	of	SCONJ	_	4 going	mark
4	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 notion	acl
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 bed	case
6	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 going	obl
7	supperless	supperless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 going	xcomp
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 unpleasant	cop
9	very	very	ADV	_	10 unpleasant	advmod
10	unpleasant	unpleasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 him	case
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 unpleasant	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 wondering	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 wondering	cc
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 wondering	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 wondering	aux
17	wondering	wonder	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 unpleasant	parataxis
18	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	24 do	obj
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 world	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 world	det
21	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 do	obl
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 do	nsubj
23	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 do	aux
24	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 wondering	ccomp
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 chanced	punct
26	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	28 chanced	advmod
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 chanced	nsubj
28	chanced	chance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 unpleasant	conj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 meet	mark
30	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 chanced	xcomp
31	with	with	ADP	_	34 friend	case
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 friend	nmod:poss
33	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 friend	amod
34	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 meet	obl
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 bear	det
36	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 meet	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 unpleasant	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	gerund	the notion not said here			bed	supperless property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location
2	is	past	the notion		fox		unpleasant property	tree rules
3	wonder speech: ask	past · progressive	fox					vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	do	should	fox			the world		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
5	chance	past	fox					vn risk-94-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	meet	to-infinitive	fox not said here	the bear			with fox's old friend	vn satisfy-55.7 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent bear=Theme with friend=Instrument

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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