The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 22, sentence 20

At first he was too tired to speak; but at length he raised his head and told all the story to his father and mother, who sat watching him.

Who acts: husband, father · What happens: be, speak, raise, tell, sit, watch · To what, where: head, length, story, father, husband · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husband, father), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 first	case
2	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 tired	obl
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 tired	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 tired	cop
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 tired	advmod
6	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 speak	mark
8	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 tired	xcomp
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 raised	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 raised	cc
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 length	case
12	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 raised	obl
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 raised	nsubj
14	raised	raise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 tired	parataxis
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 head	nmod:poss
16	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 raised	obj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 told	cc
18	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 raised	conj
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 story	det:predet
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 story	det
21	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 told	obj
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 father	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 father	nmod:poss
24	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 told	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 mother	cc
26	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 father	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 sat	punct
28	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 sat	nsubj
29	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 father	acl:relcl
30	watching	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	29 sat	xcomp
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 watching	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 tired	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	husband				tired property	tree rules
2	speak speech: other	to-infinitive	husband not said here					vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	raise	past	husband	husband's head		length		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme at length=Destination
4	tell speech: assert	past	husband not said here	all story	husband's father and mother			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Topic to father=Recipient
5	sit	past	husband's father and mother					tree rules
6	watch	gerund	husband's father and mother not said here	husband				vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

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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