The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 54

Meanwhile the toiling gnome went through his task over and over again till his back ached and his head swam, and he could no longer put two and two together; but as he felt tolerably certain of the exact number of turnips in the field, big and little together, he hurried back eager to prove to his beloved one what a delightful and submissive husband he would be.

Who acts: toiling gnome, back, head, gnome · What happens: toil, go, ache, swim, put, feel · To what, where: task, two, beloved one

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (toiling gnome, back, head, gnome), 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	Meanwhile	meanwhile	ADV	_	5 went	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 gnome	det
3	toiling	toil	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 gnome	amod
4	gnome	gnome	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	nsubj
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	through	through	ADP	_	8 task	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 task	nmod:poss
8	task	task	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	obl
9	over	over	ADV	_	5 went	advmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 again	cc
11	over	over	ADV	_	12 again	advmod
12	again	again	ADV	_	9 over	conj
13	till	till	SCONJ	_	16 ached	mark
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 back	nmod:poss
15	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 ached	nsubj
16	ached	ache	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 went	advcl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 swam	cc
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 head	nmod:poss
19	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 swam	nsubj
20	swam	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 ached	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 put	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 put	cc
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 put	nsubj
24	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 put	aux
25	no	no	ADV	_	26 longer	advmod
26	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	27 put	advmod
27	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 swam	conj
28	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 put	obj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 two	cc
30	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 two	conj
31	together	together	ADV	_	27 put	advmod
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 felt	punct
33	but	but	CCONJ	_	36 felt	cc
34	as	as	SCONJ	_	36 felt	mark
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 felt	nsubj
36	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 went	parataxis
37	tolerably	tolerably	ADV	_	38 certain	advmod
38	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 felt	xcomp
39	of	of	ADP	_	42 number	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 number	det
41	exact	exact	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 number	amod
42	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 certain	obl
43	of	of	ADP	_	44 turnips	case
44	turnips	turnip	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 number	nmod
45	in	in	ADP	_	47 field	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 field	det
47	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 turnips	nmod
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 big	punct
49	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 field	amod
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 little	cc
51	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 big	conj
52	together	together	ADV	_	49 big	advmod
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 hurried	punct
54	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 hurried	nsubj
55	hurried	hurry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 felt	conj
56	back	back	ADV	_	55 hurried	advmod
57	eager	eager	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 hurried	xcomp
58	to	to	PART	_	59 prove	mark
59	prove	prove	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	57 eager	xcomp
60	to	to	ADP	_	63 one	case
61	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	63 one	nmod:poss
62	beloved	beloved	ADJ	Degree=Pos	63 one	amod
63	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 prove	obl
64	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	69 husband	det:predet
65	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	69 husband	det
66	delightful	delightful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	69 husband	amod
67	and	and	CCONJ	_	68 submissive	cc
68	submissive	submissive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	66 delightful	conj
69	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	63 one	nmod
70	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	72 be	nsubj
71	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	72 be	aux
72	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	69 husband	acl:relcl
73	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	toil	gerund						vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go	past	the toiling gnome			gnome's task	meanwhile, over property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through task=Initial_Location
3	ache	past	gnome's back					vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	swim	past	back's head					vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	put	could	back	two			long, together property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent two=Goal
6	feel	past	back				certain property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
7	hurry back	past	back				eager property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	prove	to-infinitive	back not said here		back's beloved one what delightful husband			vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to one=Experiencer
9	task		gnome					nom task «act transitive»: poss=agent

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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