The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 14, sentence 42

But at length the young man grew tired of always staying inside walls, and he told his wife that the next day he must leave her for a few hours, and go out hunting. '

Who acts: young man, man · What happens: grow, stay, tell, leave, go out, hunt · To what, where: length, walls, wife · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young man, man), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	7 grew	cc
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 length	case
3	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 grew	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 man	det
5	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 man	amod
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 grew	nsubj
7	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 grew	xcomp
9	of	of	SCONJ	_	11 staying	mark
10	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	11 staying	advmod
11	staying	stay	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 tired	advcl
12	inside	inside	ADP	_	13 walls	case
13	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 staying	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 told	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 told	cc
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 told	nsubj
17	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 grew	conj
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 wife	nmod:poss
19	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 told	iobj
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 leave	mark
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 day	det
22	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 day	amod
23	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 leave	obl:unmarked
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 leave	nsubj
25	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 leave	aux
26	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 told	ccomp
27	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 leave	obj
28	for	for	ADP	_	31 hours	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 hours	det
30	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 hours	amod
31	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 leave	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 go	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 go	cc
34	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 grew	advcl
35	out	out	ADV	_	34 go	advmod
36	hunting	hunt	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	34 go	xcomp
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 grew	punct
38	'	'	PUNCT	_	7 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past	the young man			length		tired property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at length=Location
2	stay	gerund	the young man not said here			walls		always property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme inside wall=Location
3	tell speech: assert	past	man		man's wife				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent wife=Recipient clause=Topic
4	leave	must	man	wife			day; hour		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
5	go out	infinitive	the young man not said here					out property	tree rules
6	hunt	gerund	the young man not said here						vn hunt-35.1 «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 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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