The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 60
The nearer Peter drew to his father’s house the more ashamed he felt at having brought back such poor wages.
Who acts: nearer Peter, Peter · What happens: draw, feel, bring back · To what, where: house
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nearer Peter, Peter), 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 | 3 Peter | det |
| 2 | nearer | near | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 Peter | amod |
| 3 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 drew | nsubj |
| 4 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 house | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 father | nmod:poss |
| 7 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 house | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 father | case |
| 9 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 drew | obl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 ashamed | det |
| 11 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 12 ashamed | advmod |
| 12 | ashamed | ashamed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 house | acl |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 felt | nsubj |
| 14 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 ashamed | ccomp |
| 15 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 17 brought | mark |
| 16 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 brought | aux |
| 17 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 felt | xcomp |
| 18 | back | back | ADV | _ | 17 brought | advmod |
| 19 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 wages | amod |
| 20 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 wages | amod |
| 21 | wages | wage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 back | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 drew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | past | the nearer Peter | Peter's father's house | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to house=Destination | ||||
| 2 | feel | past | Peter | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | bring back | gerund · perfect | Peter not said here | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=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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