The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 28

He was too much exhausted to take the trouble of cutting any fern or seeking for moss, but just threw himself down under a tree, when exactly above his head he heard a great buzzing as a bumble-bee alighted on a honeysuckle branch.

Who acts: head · What happens: exhaust, take, cut, seek, throw down, hear · To what, where: bear, trouble, fern, tree, great buzzing, bumble bee

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (head), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 exhausted	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 exhausted	aux:pass
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 much	advmod
4	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 exhausted	nsubj:pass
5	exhausted	exhaust	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 take	mark
7	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 exhausted	xcomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 trouble	det
9	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 take	obj
10	of	of	SCONJ	_	11 cutting	mark
11	cutting	cut	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 trouble	advcl
12	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	13 fern	det
13	fern	fern	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cutting	obj
14	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 seeking	cc
15	seeking	seek	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 cutting	conj
16	for	for	ADP	_	17 moss	case
17	moss	moss	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 seeking	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 threw	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 threw	cc
20	just	just	ADV	_	21 threw	advmod
21	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 exhausted	parataxis
22	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	21 threw	obj
23	down	down	ADP	_	21 threw	compound:prt
24	under	under	ADP	_	26 tree	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 tree	det
26	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 threw	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 heard	punct
28	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	34 heard	advmod
29	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	32 head	advmod
30	above	above	ADP	_	32 head	case
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 head	nmod:poss
32	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 heard	nsubj
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 heard	nsubj
34	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 threw	conj
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 buzzing	det
36	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 buzzing	amod
37	buzzing	buzzing	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 heard	obj
38	as	as	ADP	_	42 bee	case
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 bee	det
40	bumble	bumble	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 bee	compound
41	-	-	PUNCT	_	40 bumble	punct
42	bee	bee	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 heard	obl
43	alighted	alight	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	42 bee	acl
44	on	on	ADP	_	47 branch	case
45	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	47 branch	det
46	honeysuckle	honeysuckle	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 branch	compound
47	branch	branch	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 alighted	obl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 exhausted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	exhaust	past · passive		bear			tree rules
2	take	to-infinitive		the trouble			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trouble=Theme
3	cut	gerund		any fern			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fern=Product
4	seek	gerund				for moss	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for moss=Theme
5	throw down	past		bear	a tree		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent himself=Theme under tree=Destination
6	hear	past	bear's head	a great buzzing		as a bumble bee	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer buzzing=Stimulus
7	alight	participle		a bumble bee not said here	a honeysuckle branch		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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