The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 67

Directly he got there he told the whales that he did not need them any more, and sat down in the sand to rest.

Who acts: bend · What happens: get, tell, not need, sit down, rest · To what, where: whales, sand · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bend), 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	Directly	directly	ADV	_	3 got	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 got	nsubj
3	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 got	advmod
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 told	nsubj
6	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 got	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 whales	det
8	whales	whale	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 told	obj
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 need	obj
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 need	nsubj
11	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 need	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 need	advmod
13	need	need	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 whales	acl:relcl
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 need	obj
15	any	any	ADV	_	16 more	advmod
16	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	13 need	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 sat	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 sat	cc
19	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 got	conj
20	down	down	ADP	_	19 sat	compound:prt
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 sand	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 sand	det
23	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sat	obl
24	to	to	PART	_	25 rest	mark
25	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 sat	advcl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 got	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	get	past	bend			there	directly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	tell speech: assert	past	bend		the whales			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent whale=Recipient
3	not need	past · do-support	bend	the whales				tree rules
4	sit down	past	bend not said here			the sand		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in sand=Location
5	rest	to-infinitive	bend not said here					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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