The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 113
Then, quite exhausted, they sat down on the mats, and consulted together what they should do with this troublesome beast.
Who acts: walls · What happens: exhaust, sit down, consult, do · To what, where: mats
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (walls), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 sat | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Then | punct |
| 3 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 4 exhausted | advmod |
| 4 | exhausted | exhaust | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 sat | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 exhausted | punct |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 sat | nsubj |
| 7 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | down | down | ADP | _ | 7 sat | compound:prt |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 mats | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 mats | det |
| 11 | mats | mat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 sat | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 consulted | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 consulted | cc |
| 14 | consulted | consult | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 sat | conj |
| 15 | together | together | ADV | _ | 14 consulted | advmod |
| 16 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 19 do | obj |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 do | nsubj |
| 18 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 do | aux |
| 19 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 consulted | parataxis |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 beast | case |
| 21 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 beast | det |
| 22 | troublesome | troublesome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 beast | amod |
| 23 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 do | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exhaust | participle | walls = wall not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | sit down | past | walls = wall | the mats | then | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on mat=Location | |||
| 3 | consult | participle | walls = wall not said here | together property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | do | should | walls = wall | with this troublesome beast | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
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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