The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 36

Father Grumbler sighed with relief and happiness as he looked around him, and sitting down on a heap of stones, he ate till he could eat no more.

Who acts: Father · What happens: sigh, look, sit down, eat · To what, where: heap, more

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 sighed	nsubj
2	Grumbler	Grumbler	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Father	flat
3	sighed	sigh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 relief	case
5	relief	relief	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sighed	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 happiness	cc
7	happiness	happiness	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 relief	conj
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 looked	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 looked	nsubj
10	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sighed	advcl
11	around	around	ADP	_	12 him	case
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 looked	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 ate	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 ate	cc
15	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 ate	advcl
16	down	down	ADV	_	15 sitting	advmod
17	on	on	ADP	_	19 heap	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 heap	det
19	heap	heap	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 sitting	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 stones	case
21	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 heap	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 sitting	punct
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 ate	nsubj
24	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sighed	conj
25	till	till	SCONJ	_	28 eat	mark
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 eat	nsubj
27	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 eat	aux
28	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 ate	advcl
29	no	no	ADV	_	30 more	advmod
30	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	28 eat	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sighed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sigh	past	Father			with relief and happiness	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	look	past	Father			around lid	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent around he=Theme
3	sit down	gerund	Father not said here		a heap of stones	down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on heap=Location
4	eat	past	Father				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	eat	could	Father	more			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Patient

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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