The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 34

So he went up to where it was standing, and as it seemed so tired that it could hardly walk, he hoisted it on his shoulders and continued on his way.

Who acts: William, bank, it · What happens: go up, stand, seem, walk, hoist, continue · To what, where: bank, shoulders, way

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (William, bank, it), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 went	compound:prt
5	to	to	SCONJ	_	9 standing	mark
6	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	9 standing	advmod
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 standing	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 standing	aux
9	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 went	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 seemed	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 seemed	cc
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 seemed	mark
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 seemed	nsubj
14	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
15	so	so	ADV	_	16 tired	advmod
16	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 seemed	xcomp
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 walk	mark
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 walk	nsubj
19	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 walk	aux
20	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	21 walk	advmod
21	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 tired	advcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 hoisted	punct
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 hoisted	nsubj
24	hoisted	hoist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 hoisted	obj
26	on	on	ADP	_	28 shoulders	case
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 shoulders	nmod:poss
28	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 hoisted	obl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 continued	cc
30	continued	continue	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 hoisted	conj
31	on	on	ADP	_	33 way	case
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 way	nmod:poss
33	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 continued	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go up	past	William				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	stand	past · progressive	bank				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	seem	past	it			tired property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
4	walk	could	bank			hardly property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	hoist	past	William	bank	William's shoulders		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme on shoulder=Destination
6	continue	participle	William not said here		William's way		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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