The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 35, sentence 32

There was no night in that country, so, instead of going to bed very early, as he would have done in his own hut, the young man took another walk.

Who acts: night, man, young man · What happens: be, go, do, take · To what, where: country, bed, own hut, walk

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (night, man, young man), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 night	det
4	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 country	case
6	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 country	det
7	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 going	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	13 going	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 going	punct
11	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	13 going	mark
12	of	of	ADP	_	11 instead	fixed
13	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 was	advcl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 bed	mark
15	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 going	xcomp
16	very	very	ADV	_	17 early	advmod
17	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 going	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 done	punct
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	23 done	mark
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 done	nsubj
21	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 done	aux
22	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 done	aux
23	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 going	advcl
24	in	in	ADP	_	27 hut	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 hut	nmod:poss
26	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 hut	amod
27	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 done	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 took	punct
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 man	det
30	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 man	amod
31	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 took	nsubj
32	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 done	advcl
33	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	34 walk	det
34	walk	walk	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 took	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	no night		that country; there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in country=Location
2	go	gerund	no night not said here	bed		early property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	do	would · perfect	man		man's own hut		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	take	past	the young man	another walk			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent walk=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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