The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 13, sentence 76

He was very old, and had worked very hard, and when at last he was struck down by illness he felt that he should never rise from his bed again.

Who acts: man, illness · What happens: be, work, strike down, feel, not rise · To what, where: man, last, bed

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, illness), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 old	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 old	cop
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 old	advmod
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 worked	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 worked	cc
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 worked	aux
8	worked	work	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 old	conj
9	very	very	ADV	_	10 hard	advmod
10	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 worked	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 felt	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 felt	cc
13	when	when	SCONJ	_	18 struck	mark
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 last	case
15	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 struck	obl
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 struck	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 struck	aux:pass
18	struck	strike	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 felt	advcl
19	down	down	ADP	_	18 struck	compound:prt
20	by	by	ADP	_	21 illness	case
21	illness	illness	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 struck	obl
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 felt	nsubj
23	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 old	conj
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 rise	mark
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 rise	nsubj
26	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 rise	aux
27	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	28 rise	advmod
28	rise	rise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 felt	advcl
29	from	from	ADP	_	31 bed	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 bed	nmod:poss
31	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 rise	obl
32	again	again	ADV	_	28 rise	advmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 old	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	man				old property	tree rules
2	work	past · perfect	man not said here				hard property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	strike down	past · passive	illness	man	last			tree rules
4	feel	past	man					vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
5	not rise	should	man		man's bed	again		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from bed=Initial_Location

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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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