The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 24, sentence 35

Much disappointed, he tried first one green path and then another, and at last, wearied with walking, he threw himself down and went fast asleep.

Who acts: doe · What happens: try, weary, throw down, go · To what, where: one green path, last, doe

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (doe), 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	Much	much	ADV	_	2 disappointed	advmod
2	disappointed	disappointed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 tried	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 tried	nsubj
5	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 disappointed	parataxis
6	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	7 one	advmod
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 path	nummod
8	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 path	amod
9	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tried	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 another	cc
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 another	advmod
12	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	9 path	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 wearied	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 wearied	cc
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 last	case
16	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 wearied	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 last	punct
18	wearied	weary	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 tried	conj
19	with	with	ADP	_	20 walking	case
20	walking	walking	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 wearied	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 threw	punct
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 threw	nsubj
23	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 wearied	parataxis
24	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	23 threw	obj
25	down	down	ADP	_	23 threw	compound:prt
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 went	cc
27	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 threw	conj
28	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	27 went	advmod
29	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 went	xcomp
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 disappointed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	try	past	doe	one green path			vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent path=Eventuality
2	weary	participle	doe not said here		last	with walking	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	throw down	past	doe	doe			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme
4	go	past	doe not said here			asleep, fast property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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