The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 54

At last he hit upon something which he thought would do, and accordingly he sat down near the tree and began to stare hard at it.

Who acts: fox · What happens: hit, think, do, sit down, begin, stare · To what, where: tree

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 (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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hit	obl
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hit	nsubj
4	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	upon	upon	ADP	_	6 something	case
6	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 hit	obl
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 thought	nsubj
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 thought	nsubj
9	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 something	acl:relcl
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 do	aux
11	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 thought	xcomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 sat	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 sat	cc
14	accordingly	accordingly	ADV	_	16 sat	advmod
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 sat	nsubj
16	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hit	conj
17	down	down	ADP	_	16 sat	compound:prt
18	near	near	ADP	_	20 tree	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 tree	det
20	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sat	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 began	cc
22	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 sat	conj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 stare	mark
24	stare	stare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 began	xcomp
25	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	24 stare	advmod
26	at	at	ADP	_	27 it	case
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 stare	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 hit	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	hit	past	fox		upon something; at last	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at last=Patient
2	think speech: other	past				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	do	would				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	sit down	past	fox	the tree	accordingly property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent near tree=Location
5	begin	past	fox not said here			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	stare	to-infinitive	fox not said here		at tree; hard property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=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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