The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 30, sentence 27

When at last he gave up the quest his knees trembled beneath him for very weariness, and glad was he to see a tree growing close by lade with fruits of different sorts, of which he ate greedily.

Who acts: staff, knees, tree · What happens: give up, tremble, see, grow, lade, eat · To what, where: quest, last, tree

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (staff, knees, tree), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 gave	advmod
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 last	case
3	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gave	obl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 gave	nsubj
5	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 trembled	advcl
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 gave	compound:prt
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 quest	det
8	quest	quest	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gave	obj
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 knees	nmod:poss
10	knees	knee	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 trembled	nsubj
11	trembled	tremble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	13 him	case
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 trembled	obl
14	for	for	ADP	_	16 weariness	case
15	very	very	ADV	_	16 weariness	advmod
16	weariness	weariness	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 trembled	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 glad	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 glad	cc
19	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 trembled	parataxis
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 see	aux
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 see	nsubj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 see	mark
23	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 glad	xcomp
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 tree	det
25	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 see	obj
26	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 tree	acl
27	close	close	ADV	Degree=Pos	26 growing	advmod
28	by	by	SCONJ	_	29 lade	mark
29	lade	lade	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 growing	xcomp
30	with	with	ADP	_	31 fruits	case
31	fruits	fruit	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 lade	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 sorts	case
33	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 sorts	amod
34	sorts	sort	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 fruits	nmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 ate	punct
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 which	case
37	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	39 ate	obl
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 ate	nsubj
39	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 see	parataxis
40	greedily	greedily	ADV	_	39 ate	advmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 trembled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	give up	past	staff	the quest	last		vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quest=Source
2	tremble	past	staff's knees			beneath staff; for weariness	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beneath he=Location
3	see	past	staff	a tree			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tree=Stimulus
4	grow	gerund	a tree not said here			close property	tree rules
5	lade	infinitive	a tree not said here			with fruits of different sorts	tree rules
6	eat	past	staff			greedily property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent of which=Source

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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