The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 20, sentence 6

Jack remained for some hours in hiding, thankful to be safe from his tormentors; but when no one came to trouble him, and his back did not ache so much, he began to think what he had better do.

Who acts: Jack, one, back · What happens: remain, be, come, not ache, begin, think · To what, where: hiding, tormentors, better do · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jack, one, back), 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	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 remained	nsubj
2	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 hours	case
4	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	5 hours	det
5	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 remained	obl
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 hiding	case
7	hiding	hiding	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 remained	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 thankful	punct
9	thankful	thankful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 hiding	amod
10	to	to	PART	_	12 safe	mark
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 safe	cop
12	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 thankful	advcl
13	from	from	ADP	_	15 tormentors	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 tormentors	nmod:poss
15	tormentors	tormentor	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 safe	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 began	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	36 began	cc
18	when	when	SCONJ	_	21 came	mark
19	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	20 one	det
20	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 came	nsubj
21	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 began	advcl
22	to	to	PART	_	23 trouble	mark
23	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 came	nsubj
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 trouble	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 ache	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 ache	cc
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 back	nmod:poss
28	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 ache	nsubj
29	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 ache	aux
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 ache	advmod
31	ache	ache	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 came	advcl
32	so	so	ADV	_	33 much	advmod
33	much	much	ADV	_	31 ache	advmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 came	punct
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 began	nsubj
36	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 remained	conj
37	to	to	PART	_	38 think	mark
38	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 began	xcomp
39	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	41 had	obj
40	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 had	nsubj
41	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 think	ccomp
42	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	43 do	amod
43	do	do	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 had	obj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 remained	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remain	past	Jack		hiding	hour		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hiding=Location
2	is	to-infinitive	Jack not said here		Jack's tormentors		safe property	tree rules
3	come	past	no one					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	not ache	past · do-support	Jack's back					vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	begin	past	Jack					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	think speech: other	to-infinitive	Jack not said here					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
7	have	past	Jack	better do				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 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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