The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 105
After he had followed the trail for a great distance he grew very tired, and sat upon the branch of a tree to rest.
Who acts: use · What happens: follow, grow, sit, rest · To what, where: use, branch
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (use), 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 4 followed | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 followed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 followed | aux |
| 4 | followed | follow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 grew | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 trail | det |
| 6 | trail | trail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 followed | obj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 distance | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 distance | det |
| 9 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 distance | amod |
| 10 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 followed | obl |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 grew | nsubj |
| 12 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | very | very | ADV | _ | 14 tired | advmod |
| 14 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 grew | xcomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 sat | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 sat | cc |
| 17 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 grew | conj |
| 18 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 20 branch | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 branch | det |
| 20 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sat | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 tree | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 tree | det |
| 23 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 branch | nmod |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 rest | mark |
| 25 | rest | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 sat | advcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | past · perfect · passive | use | for a great distance | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP.attribute»: subject=Theme trail=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | grow | past | use | tired property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | sit | past | use not said here | the branch of a tree | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon branch=Location | ||||
| 4 | rest | to-infinitive | use 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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