The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 49

At length he grew so tired he could walk no more; then he remembered what the old woman had said.

Who acts: man, old woman · What happens: grow, walk, remember, say · To what, where: length, more · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, old woman), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 length	case
2	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grew	obl
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 grew	nsubj
4	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 tired	advmod
6	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 grew	xcomp
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 walk	nsubj
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 walk	aux
9	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 grew	advcl
10	no	no	ADV	_	11 more	advmod
11	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 walk	obj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 remembered	punct
13	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 remembered	advmod
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 remembered	nsubj
15	remembered	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 grew	conj
16	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	21 said	obj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 woman	det
18	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 woman	amod
19	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 said	nsubj
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 said	aux
21	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 remembered	ccomp
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past	man		length		tired property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at length=Location
2	walk	could	man	more				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme more=Trajectory
3	remember	past	man			then		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	say speech: assert	past · perfect	the old woman					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

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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