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The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 9, sentence 86

So he walked sadly down to a sheltered pool and dived to the very bottom, and tried to think it was the greatest happiness he could dream of.

Who acts: neck, bottom · What happens: walk, shelter, dive, try, think, be · To what, where: bottom, greatest happiness · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (neck, bottom), 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

advmodnsubjadvmodadvmodcasedetamodoblccconjcasedetadvmodoblpunctccconjmarkxcompnsubjcopdetamodccompnsubjauxacl:relcloblpunctrootSoADVhePRONwalkedVERBsadlyADVdownADVtoADPaDETshelteredVERBpoolNOUNandCCONJdivedVERBtoADPtheDETveryADVbottomNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJtriedVERBtoPARTthinkVERBitPRONwasAUXtheDETgreatestADJhappinessNOUNhePRONcouldAUXdreamVERBofADP.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1SosoADV_3 walkedadvmod
2hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs3 walkednsubj
3walkedwalkVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
4sadlysadlyADV_5 downadvmod
5downdownADV_3 walkedadvmod
6totoADP_9 poolcase
7aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art9 pooldet
8shelteredshelterVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass9 poolamod
9poolpoolNOUNNumber=Sing3 walkedobl
10andandCCONJ_11 divedcc
11diveddiveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 walkedconj
12totoADP_15 bottomcase
13thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art15 bottomdet
14veryveryADV_15 bottomadvmod
15bottombottomNOUNNumber=Sing11 divedobl
16,,PUNCT_18 triedpunct
17andandCCONJ_18 triedcc
18triedtryVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 walkedconj
19totoPART_20 thinkmark
20thinkthinkVERBVerbForm=Inf18 triedxcomp
21ititPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs25 happinessnsubj
22wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin25 happinesscop
23thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art25 happinessdet
24greatestgreatADJDegree=Sup25 happinessamod
25happinesshappinessNOUNNumber=Sing20 thinkccomp
26hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs28 dreamnsubj
27couldcouldAUXVerbForm=Fin28 dreamaux
28dreamdreamVERBVerbForm=Inf25 happinessacl:relcl
29ofofADP_28 dreamobl
30..PUNCT_3 walkedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1walkpastneckto a sheltered pool result; down propertyvn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to pool=Result
2shelterparticiplevn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3divepastneck not said herethe bottomvn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to bottom=Location
4trypastneck not said herevn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5think speech: other not said to happento-infinitiveneck not said herevn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6is apastbottomthe greatest happinesstree rules
7dreamcouldneckthe greatest happiness not said herevn cognize-85 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent happiness=Topic

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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