The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 117

But the young man steadily turned his face in the other direction, and went home to bed.

Who acts: young man · What happens: turn, go · To what, where: face, bed

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 turned	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 man	det
3	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 turned	nsubj
5	steadily	steadily	ADV	_	6 turned	advmod
6	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 face	nmod:poss
8	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 turned	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	12 direction	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 direction	det
11	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 direction	amod
12	direction	direction	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 turned	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 went	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 went	cc
15	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 turned	conj
16	home	home	ADV	_	15 went	advmod
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 bed	case
18	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 went	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 turned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past	the young man	man's face				in the other direction; steadily property	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent face=Patient in direction=Topic
2	go	past	the young man not said here			bed		home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_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 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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