The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 30

So he turned slowly away, and walked heavily along a path which ended in a cave on the side of his hill, and there he sat through the night, thinking of what had happened.

Who acts: man, path · What happens: turn, walk, end, sit, think, happen · To what, where: path, cave

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, path), 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 turned	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 turned	nsubj
3	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	5 away	advmod
5	away	away	ADV	_	3 turned	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 walked	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 walked	cc
8	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 turned	conj
9	heavily	heavily	ADV	_	8 walked	advmod
10	along	along	ADP	_	12 path	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 path	det
12	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 walked	obl
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 ended	nsubj
14	ended	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 path	acl:relcl
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 cave	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 cave	det
17	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 ended	obl
18	on	on	ADP	_	20 side	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 side	det
20	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 ended	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 hill	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 hill	nmod:poss
23	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 side	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 sat	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 sat	cc
26	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	28 sat	expl
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 sat	nsubj
28	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 turned	conj
29	through	through	ADP	_	31 night	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 night	det
31	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 sat	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 thinking	punct
33	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 sat	advcl
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 what	case
35	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 thinking	obl
36	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 happened	aux
37	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	35 what	acl:relcl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 turned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past	man			away property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	walk	past	man not said here	a path		heavily property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along path=Trajectory
3	end	past	a path	a cave		on the side of man's hill	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4	sit	past	man	there	night		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	think speech: other	gerund	man not said here				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	happen	past · perfect					vn occur-48.3-1 «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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