The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 38, sentence 52

Many time he fancied it was close to him, and many times it turned out to be something else; but, at last, when light was fading, and he had almost given up hope, he came upon a large bed of the plant, right under his feet!

Who acts: deal, wood, many times, light · What happens: fancy, be, turn out, fade, give up, come · To what, where: deal, something, feet

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (deal, wood, many times, light), 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	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 time	amod
2	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fancied	obl:unmarked
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fancied	nsubj
4	fancied	fancy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 close	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 close	cop
7	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 fancied	ccomp
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 him	case
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 close	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 turned	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 turned	cc
12	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 times	amod
13	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 turned	nsubj
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 turned	nsubj
15	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fancied	conj
16	out	out	ADP	_	15 turned	compound:prt
17	to	to	PART	_	19 something	mark
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 something	cop
19	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	15 turned	xcomp
20	else	else	ADV	_	19 something	advmod
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 last	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 last	cc
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 last	punct
24	at	at	ADP	_	25 last	case
25	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 fancied	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 fading	punct
27	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	30 fading	advmod
28	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 fading	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 fading	aux
30	fading	fade	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 last	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 given	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 given	cc
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 given	nsubj:pass
34	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 given	aux
35	almost	almost	ADV	_	36 given	advmod
36	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 fancied	parataxis
37	up	up	ADP	_	36 given	compound:prt
38	hope	hope	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 given	obj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 came	punct
40	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 came	nsubj
41	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fancied	conj
42	upon	upon	ADP	_	45 bed	case
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 bed	det
44	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 bed	amod
45	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 came	obl
46	of	of	ADP	_	48 plant	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 plant	det
48	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 bed	nmod
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 feet	punct
50	right	right	ADV	_	53 feet	advmod
51	under	under	ADP	_	53 feet	case
52	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	53 feet	nmod:poss
53	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 came	obl:unmarked
54	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 fancied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fancy	past	deal				time		vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	past	wood		deal			close property	tree rules
3	turn out	past	many times						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is a	to-infinitive	many times not said here	something				else property	tree rules
5	fade	past · progressive	light						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
6	give up	past · perfect · passive		deal				almost property	tree rules
7	come	past	deal			deal's feet		upon a large bed of the plant	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon bed=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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