The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 30, sentence 49
In the wood he felt hungry, for he had walked far, and he sat down to eat.
Who acts: I. · What happens: feel, walk, sit down, eat
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 (I.), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 wood | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 wood | det |
| 3 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 felt | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 felt | nsubj |
| 5 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 felt | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 walked | punct |
| 8 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 11 walked | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 walked | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 walked | aux |
| 11 | walked | walk | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 felt | conj |
| 12 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 walked | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 sat | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 sat | cc |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 sat | nsubj |
| 16 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 felt | conj |
| 17 | down | down | ADP | _ | 16 sat | compound:prt |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 eat | mark |
| 19 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 sat | advcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | I. | in the wood; hungry property | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Theme in wood=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | walk | past · perfect | I. | far property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | sit down | past | I. | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | eat | to-infinitive | I. not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «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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