The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 32, sentence 116

'Well, at any rate here is a bench where we can sit down, and when we are rested we will think what is best to do next.'

Who acts: rate, we · What happens: be, sit down, rest, think, do · To what, where: bench, we · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rate, we), 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	'	'	PUNCT	_	10 bench	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	10 bench	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 rate	case
5	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	6 rate	det
6	rate	rate	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bench	nsubj
7	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 rate	advmod
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 bench	cop
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 bench	det
10	bench	bench	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	14 sit	advmod
12	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 sit	nsubj
13	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 sit	aux
14	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 bench	acl:relcl
15	down	down	ADP	_	14 sit	compound:prt
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 think	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 think	cc
18	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	21 rested	advmod
19	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 rested	nsubj
20	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 rested	aux:pass
21	rested	rest	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 think	advcl
22	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 think	nsubj
23	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 think	aux
24	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 sit	conj
25	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	27 best	nsubj
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 best	cop
27	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	24 think	ccomp
28	to	to	PART	_	29 do	mark
29	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 best	csubj
30	next	next	ADV	_	29 do	advmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 bench	punct
32	'	'	PUNCT	_	10 bench	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	any rate	a bench		tree rules
2	sit down	can	we			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	rest	present · passive		we		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
4	think speech: other	future	we			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is	present			good property	tree rules
6	do	to-infinitive			next property	vn act-114-1 «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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