The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 116
Here he found a quiet place in which to rest his bruised and battered limbs and to think over his many misfortunes.
Who acts: master · What happens: find, rest, bruise, batter, think · To what, where: quiet place, bruised limbs, many misfortunes
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (master), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 found | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 found | nsubj |
| 3 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 place | det |
| 5 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 place | amod |
| 6 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 found | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 which | case |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 rest | obl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 rest | mark |
| 10 | rest | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 place | acl:relcl |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 limbs | nmod:poss |
| 12 | bruised | bruise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 limbs | amod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 battered | cc |
| 14 | battered | batter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 bruised | conj |
| 15 | limbs | limb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 rest | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 think | cc |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 think | mark |
| 18 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 rest | conj |
| 19 | over | over | ADP | _ | 22 misfortunes | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 misfortunes | nmod:poss |
| 21 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 misfortunes | amod |
| 22 | misfortunes | misfortune | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 think | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | master | a quiet place | here | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Topic | |||
| 2 | rest | to-infinitive | master not said here | master's bruised limbs | a quiet place | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent limb=Theme in which=Location | |||
| 3 | bruise | participle | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | batter | participle | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | think speech: other | to-infinitive | master not said here | master's many misfortunes | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: 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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