The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 58

“It was too hot to sleep, so it was no use going to bed, and I walked straight of to the forest and bathed in one of those deep dark pools at the edge of the river.

Who acts: manner, use, girl · What happens: be, sleep, go, walk, bath · To what, where: use, 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 (manner, use, girl), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	5 hot	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 hot	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hot	cop
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 hot	advmod
5	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 sleep	mark
7	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 hot	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 use	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	13 use	advmod
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 use	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 use	cop
12	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	13 use	det
13	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hot	conj
14	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 use	acl
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 bed	case
16	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 going	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 walked	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 walked	cc
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 walked	nsubj
20	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hot	parataxis
21	straight	straight	ADV	_	25 forest	advmod
22	of	of	ADP	_	25 forest	case
23	to	to	ADP	_	25 forest	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 forest	det
25	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 walked	obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 bathed	cc
27	bathed	bath	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 forest	conj
28	in	in	ADP	_	29 one	case
29	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 bathed	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	34 pools	case
31	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	34 pools	det
32	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 pools	amod
33	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 pools	amod
34	pools	pool	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 one	nmod
35	at	at	ADP	_	37 edge	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 edge	det
37	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 pools	nmod
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 river	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 river	det
40	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 edge	nmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 hot	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	past	manner			hot property	tree rules
2	sleep in a quote	to-infinitive	manner not said here				vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a in a quote	past	manner	no use			tree rules
4	go in a quote	gerund	no use not said here		bed		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location
5	walk in a quote	past	the girl = girl			of the forest	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme of forest=Trajectory
6	bath in a quote	participle	the girl = girl not said here			in one of that deep dark pools at the edge of the river	tree rules

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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