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The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 45

Gladdened by this sight, he dragged himself to the water’s edge, drank his fill, and returned thanks for his deliverance from thirst.

Who acts: foot · What happens: gladden, drag, drink, return, deliver · To what, where: foot, edge, fill, thanks, thirst

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (foot), 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

advclcasedetoblpunctnsubjobjcasedetnmod:posscaseoblpunctconjnmod:possobjpunctccconjobjcasenmod:possnmodcasenmodpunctrootGladdenedVERBbyADPthisDETsightNOUN,PUNCThePRONdraggedVERBhimselfPRONtoADPtheDETwaterNOUN’sPARTedgeNOUN,PUNCTdrankVERBhisPRONfillNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJreturnedVERBthanksNOUNforADPhisPRONdeliveranceNOUNfromADPthirstNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1GladdenedgladdenVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass7 draggedadvcl
2bybyADP_4 sightcase
3thisthisDETNumber=Sing PronType=Dem4 sightdet
4sightsightNOUNNumber=Sing1 Gladdenedobl
5,,PUNCT_1 Gladdenedpunct
6hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs7 draggednsubj
7draggeddragVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
8himselfhimselfPRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes7 draggedobj
9totoADP_13 edgecase
10thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art11 waterdet
11waterwaterNOUNNumber=Sing13 edgenmod:poss
12’s'sPART_11 watercase
13edgeedgeNOUNNumber=Sing7 draggedobl
14,,PUNCT_15 drankpunct
15drankdrinkVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin7 draggedconj
16hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs17 fillnmod:poss
17fillfillNOUNNumber=Sing15 drankobj
18,,PUNCT_20 returnedpunct
19andandCCONJ_20 returnedcc
20returnedreturnVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin7 draggedconj
21thanksthanksNOUNNumber=Sing20 returnedobj
22forforADP_24 deliverancecase
23hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs24 deliverancenmod:poss
24deliverancedeliveranceNOUNNumber=Sing21 thanksnmod
25fromfromADP_26 thirstcase
26thirstthirstNOUNNumber=Sing24 deliverancenmod
27..PUNCT_7 draggedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1gladdenparticiplefoot not said hereby this sightvn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2dragpastfootfootthe water's edgevn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent himself=Theme to edge=Destination
3drinkpastfoot not said herefoot's fillvn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fill=Patient
4returnpastfoot not said herethanksfor foot's deliverance from thirstvn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thanks=Theme
5deliverfootthirstnom deliverance «act transitive»: poss=agent from=place

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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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