The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2, sentence 20

Very soon he retired to rest in a splendid room, far grander than anything he had ever dreamed of.

Who acts: Fear · What happens: retire, rest, dream · To what, where: splendid room

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fear), 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	Very	very	ADV	_	2 soon	advmod
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 retired	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 retired	nsubj
4	retired	retire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 rest	mark
6	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 retired	xcomp
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 room	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 room	det
9	splendid	splendid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 room	amod
10	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rest	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 grander	punct
12	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 grander	advmod
13	grander	grand	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 room	amod
14	than	than	ADP	_	15 anything	case
15	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	13 grander	obl
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 dreamed	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 dreamed	aux
18	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	19 dreamed	advmod
19	dreamed	dream	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 anything	acl:relcl
20	of	of	ADP	_	19 dreamed	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 retired	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	retire	past	Fear			soon property	tree rules
2	rest	to-infinitive	Fear not said here	a splendid room			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in room=Location
3	dream	past · perfect	Fear		ever		vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=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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