The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 33, sentence 52

On the fourth morning it was just the same, and, filled with despair, he flung himself on the ground under a tree and hid his face in his hands.

Who acts: tower, boy · What happens: be, fill, fling, hide · To what, where: boy, ground, face, hands

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tower, boy), 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	On	on	ADP	_	4 morning	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 morning	det
3	fourth	fourth	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 morning	amod
4	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 same	obl
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 same	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 same	cop
7	just	just	ADV	_	9 same	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 same	det
9	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 filled	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 filled	cc
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 filled	punct
13	filled	fill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 same	conj
14	with	with	ADP	_	15 despair	case
15	despair	despair	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 filled	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 flung	punct
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 flung	nsubj
18	flung	fling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 same	parataxis
19	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	18 flung	obj
20	on	on	ADP	_	22 ground	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 ground	det
22	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 flung	obl
23	under	under	ADP	_	25 tree	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 tree	det
25	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 flung	obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 hid	cc
27	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 flung	conj
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 face	nmod:poss
29	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 hid	obj
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 hands	case
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 hands	nmod:poss
32	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 hid	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 same	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	tower			morning	same property	tree rules
2	fill	participle	tower not said here				with despair	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with despair=Instrument
3	fling	past	boy	boy	the ground		under a tree	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent himself=Theme on ground=Destination
4	hide	past	boy not said here	boy's face	boy's hands			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent face=Patient in hand=Location

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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