The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 143

After walking for several hours he met a fox, who seemed inclined to be friendly, and the boy was so glad to have anyone to talk to that he sat down and entered into conversation.

Who acts: king, fox, boy, anyone · What happens: walk, meet, seem, be, have, talk · To what, where: fox, anyone, conversation

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, fox, boy, anyone), 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	_	2 walking	mark
2	walking	walk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 met	advcl
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 hours	case
4	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 hours	amod
5	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 walking	obl
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 met	nsubj
7	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 fox	det
9	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 met	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 seemed	punct
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 seemed	nsubj
12	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 fox	acl:relcl
13	inclined	inclined	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 seemed	xcomp
14	to	to	PART	_	16 friendly	mark
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 friendly	cop
16	friendly	friendly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 inclined	xcomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 glad	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 glad	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 boy	det
20	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 glad	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 glad	cop
22	so	so	ADV	_	23 glad	advmod
23	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 met	parataxis
24	to	to	PART	_	25 have	mark
25	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 glad	advcl
26	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	25 have	obj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 talk	mark
28	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 have	xcomp
29	to	to	ADP	_	30 that	case
30	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	32 sat	obl
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 sat	nsubj
32	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 talk	ccomp
33	down	down	ADP	_	32 sat	compound:prt
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 entered	cc
35	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 sat	conj
36	into	into	ADP	_	37 conversation	case
37	conversation	conversation	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 entered	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 met	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	gerund	king not said here			hour		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	meet	past	king	a fox				vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fox=Co-Agent
3	seem	past	a fox				inclined property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
4	is	to-infinitive	a fox not said here				friendly property	tree rules
5	is	past	the boy				glad property	tree rules
6	have	to-infinitive	the boy not said here	anyone				tree rules
7	talk	to-infinitive	anyone not said here					tree rules
8	sit down	past	king				to that	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	enter	past	king not said here		conversation			vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into conversation=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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