The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 4
Now Jimmu had not gone very far before he felt that the kettle was getting heavier and heavier, and by the time he reached home he was so tired that he was thankful to put it down in the corner of his room, and then forgot all about it.
Who acts: Jimmu, kettle · What happens: not go, feel, get, reach, be, put down · To what, where: time, kettle, corner
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jimmu, kettle), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 gone | advmod |
| 2 | Jimmu | Jimmu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 gone | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 gone | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 gone | advmod |
| 5 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 far | advmod |
| 7 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 gone | advmod |
| 8 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 10 felt | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 felt | nsubj |
| 10 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 gone | advcl |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 getting | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 kettle | det |
| 13 | kettle | kettle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 getting | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 getting | aux |
| 15 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 felt | ccomp |
| 16 | heavier | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 getting | xcomp |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 heavier | cc |
| 18 | heavier | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 heavier | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 tired | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 tired | cc |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 time | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 time | det |
| 23 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 tired | obl |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 reached | nsubj |
| 25 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 time | acl:relcl |
| 26 | home | home | ADV | _ | 25 reached | advmod |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 tired | nsubj |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 tired | cop |
| 29 | so | so | ADV | _ | 30 tired | advmod |
| 30 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 felt | advcl |
| 31 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 34 thankful | mark |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 thankful | nsubj |
| 33 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 thankful | cop |
| 34 | thankful | thankful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 tired | conj |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 put | mark |
| 36 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 thankful | advcl |
| 37 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 put | obj |
| 38 | down | down | ADP | _ | 36 put | compound:prt |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 corner | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 corner | det |
| 41 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 put | obl |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 room | case |
| 43 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 room | nmod:poss |
| 44 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 corner | nmod |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 forgot | punct |
| 46 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 forgot | cc |
| 47 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 48 forgot | advmod |
| 48 | forgot | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 felt | conj |
| 49 | all | all | ADV | _ | 48 forgot | advmod |
| 50 | about | about | ADP | _ | 51 it | case |
| 51 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 48 forgot | obl |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 gone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not go | past · perfect | Jimmu | now | far property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | feel | past | Jimmu | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | get | past · progressive | the kettle | heavy property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | reach | past | Jimmu | the time not said here | home property | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent time=Theme | |||
| 5 | is | past | Jimmu | time | tired property | tree rules | |||
| 6 | is | past | Jimmu | thankful property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | put down | to-infinitive | Jimmu not said here | kettle | the corner of Jimmu's room | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in corner=Destination | |||
| 8 | forget | past | Jimmu not said here | then | about kettle; all property | tree rules |
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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