The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 11

Then after a time he found it dull to sit so many hours by himself, thinking of nothing but how to pay the rent that was owing, and as the tavern across the road looked bright and cheerful, he walked in one day and sat down with his friends.

Who acts: Father, church, rent · What happens: find, sit, think, pay, owe, look · To what, where: church, rent

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Father, church, rent), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 found	advmod
2	after	after	ADP	_	4 time	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 time	det
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 found	obl
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 found	nsubj
6	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 found	obj
8	dull	dull	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 found	xcomp
9	to	to	PART	_	10 sit	mark
10	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 dull	xcomp
11	so	so	ADV	_	12 many	advmod
12	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 hours	amod
13	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 sit	obj
14	by	by	ADP	_	15 himself	case
15	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	10 sit	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 thinking	punct
17	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 sit	advcl
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 nothing	case
19	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	17 thinking	obl
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 pay	cc
21	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	23 pay	advmod
22	to	to	PART	_	23 pay	mark
23	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 thinking	conj
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 rent	det
25	rent	rent	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 pay	obj
26	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 owing	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 owing	aux
28	owing	owe	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 rent	acl:relcl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 looked	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 looked	cc
31	as	as	ADP	_	33 tavern	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 tavern	det
33	tavern	tavern	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 looked	obl
34	across	across	ADP	_	36 road	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 road	det
36	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 tavern	nmod
37	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 found	conj
38	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 looked	xcomp
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 cheerful	cc
40	cheerful	cheerful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 bright	conj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 walked	punct
42	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 walked	nsubj
43	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 found	parataxis
44	in	in	ADP	_	46 day	case
45	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	46 day	nummod
46	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 walked	obl
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 sat	cc
48	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 walked	conj
49	down	down	ADP	_	48 sat	compound:prt
50	with	with	ADP	_	52 friends	case
51	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	52 friends	nmod:poss
52	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 sat	obl
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	find	past	Father	church	then; time	dull property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
2	sit	to-infinitive	church not said here		hour	by Father	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by himself=Location
3	think speech: other	gerund	church not said here			of nothing	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	pay	to-infinitive	church not said here	the rent			vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rent=Asset
5	owe	past · progressive	the rent				vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
6	look	past	Father not said here			as the tavern across the road; bright property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
7	walk	past	Father		day		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	sit down	past	Father not said here			with Father's friends	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: 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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