The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 5

At first Paul was too tired to do anything but sleep, but as soon as he was rested he started off in search of the three faithless ones, who almost died from fright at the sight of him, for they had thought he would never come back to reproach them for their wickedness.

Who acts: Paul, three faithless ones · What happens: be, do, rest, start off, die, think · To what, where: anything, Paul, search, fright, friends, three faithless ones · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Paul, three faithless ones), 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 first	case
2	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 tired	obl
3	Paul	Paul	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 tired	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 tired	cop
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 tired	advmod
6	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 do	mark
8	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 tired	xcomp
9	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	8 do	obj
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 sleep	cc
11	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 anything	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 rested	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 rested	cc
14	as	as	ADV	_	15 soon	advmod
15	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	19 rested	advmod
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	19 rested	mark
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 rested	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 rested	aux:pass
19	rested	rest	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 started	advcl
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 started	nsubj
21	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 tired	parataxis
22	off	off	ADP	_	21 started	compound:prt
23	in	in	ADP	_	24 search	case
24	search	search	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 started	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	29 ones	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 ones	det
27	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 ones	nummod
28	faithless	faithless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 ones	amod
29	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 search	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 died	punct
31	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 died	nsubj
32	almost	almost	ADV	_	33 died	advmod
33	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 ones	parataxis
34	from	from	ADP	_	35 fright	case
35	fright	fright	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 died	obl
36	at	at	ADP	_	38 sight	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 sight	det
38	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 died	obl
39	of	of	ADP	_	40 him	case
40	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 sight	nmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 thought	punct
42	for	for	SCONJ	_	45 thought	mark
43	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 thought	nsubj:pass
44	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 thought	aux
45	thought	think	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 died	conj
46	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 come	nsubj
47	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	49 come	aux
48	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	49 come	advmod
49	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 thought	ccomp
50	back	back	ADV	_	49 come	advmod
51	to	to	PART	_	52 reproach	mark
52	reproach	reproach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	49 come	xcomp
53	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 reproach	obj
54	for	for	ADP	_	56 wickedness	case
55	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	56 wickedness	nmod:poss
56	wickedness	wickedness	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 reproach	obl
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 tired	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	Paul			tired property	tree rules
2	do	to-infinitive	Paul not said here	anything			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Eventuality
3	rest	past · passive		Paul		soon property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
4	start off	past	Paul		search of the three faithless ones		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
5	die	past	the three faithless ones		fright	at the sight of Paul; almost property	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient from fright=Causer
6	think speech: other	past · perfect · passive		friends = friend			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme
7	not come back	would	Paul				tree rules
8	reproach	to-infinitive	Paul not said here	friends = friend		for friends's wickedness	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent they=Theme for wickedness=Attribute
9	search			the three faithless ones			nom search «act transitive»: of=patient
10	sight			Paul			nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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