The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 13

Father Grumbler entered his house feeling more dismal than when he left it, for he knew that he had wasted both his time and his money.

Who acts: Father · What happens: enter, feel, leave, know, waste · To what, where: house · Speech: someone speaks here

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), 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	Father	Father	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 entered	nsubj
2	Grumbler	Grumbler	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Father	flat
3	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 house	nmod:poss
5	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 entered	obj
6	feeling	feel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 entered	advcl
7	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 dismal	advmod
8	dismal	dismal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 feeling	xcomp
9	than	than	SCONJ	_	12 left	mark
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 left	advmod
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 left	nsubj
12	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 dismal	advcl
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 left	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 knew	punct
15	for	for	SCONJ	_	17 knew	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 knew	nsubj
17	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 entered	parataxis
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 wasted	mark
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 wasted	nsubj
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 wasted	aux
21	wasted	waste	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 knew	ccomp
22	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	24 time	det:predet
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 time	nmod:poss
24	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 wasted	obl:unmarked
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 money	cc
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 money	nmod:poss
27	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 time	conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 entered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	enter	past	Father	Father's house			vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme house=Destination
2	feel	gerund	Father not said here			dismal property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	leave	past	Father	house			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	know	past	Father				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	waste	past · perfect	Father		time		vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: 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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