The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 55

He felt very well satisfied with himself as he crossed the mossy lawn to the place where he had left her; but, alas! she was no longer there.

Who acts: head, pretty · What happens: feel, cross, leave, be · To what, where: mossy lawn, place, pretty

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 (head, pretty), 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	2 felt	nsubj
2	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	very	very	ADV	_	5 satisfied	advmod
4	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 satisfied	advmod
5	satisfied	satisfied	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 felt	xcomp
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 himself	case
7	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 satisfied	obl
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 crossed	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 crossed	nsubj
10	crossed	cross	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 satisfied	advcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 lawn	det
12	mossy	mossy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 lawn	amod
13	lawn	lawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 crossed	obj
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 place	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 place	det
16	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 crossed	obl
17	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	20 left	advmod
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 left	nsubj
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 left	aux
20	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 place	acl:relcl
21	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 left	obj
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 there	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 there	cc
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 but	punct
25	alas	alas	INTJ	_	31 there	discourse
26	!	!	PUNCT	_	25 alas	punct
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 there	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 there	cop
29	no	no	ADV	_	30 longer	advmod
30	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	31 there	advmod
31	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 felt	advcl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 felt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	feel	past	head			satisfied property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	cross	past	head	the mossy lawn	the place		vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent lawn=Patient to place=Recipient
3	leave	past · perfect	head	pretty			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
4	is	past	pretty			long, there property	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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