The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 3

At length he found what he sought, but as it was too late and too dark for him to make sure of success, he curled himself up under a doorway, and slept till morning.

Who acts: brother, length · What happens: find, seek, be, make, curl up, sleep · To what, where: length, brother, doorway · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brother, length), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 length	case
2	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 found	obl
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 found	nsubj
4	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 sought	obj
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 sought	nsubj
7	sought	seek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 found	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 curled	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 curled	cc
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 late	mark
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 late	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 late	cop
13	too	too	ADV	_	14 late	advmod
14	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 curled	advcl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 dark	cc
16	too	too	ADV	_	17 dark	advmod
17	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 late	conj
18	for	for	SCONJ	_	21 make	mark
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 make	nsubj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 make	mark
21	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 late	advcl
22	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 make	xcomp
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 success	case
24	success	success	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 sure	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 late	punct
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 curled	nsubj
27	curled	curl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 found	conj
28	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	27 curled	obj
29	up	up	ADP	_	27 curled	compound:prt
30	under	under	ADP	_	32 doorway	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 doorway	det
32	doorway	doorway	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 curled	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 slept	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 slept	cc
35	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 found	conj
36	till	till	ADP	_	37 morning	case
37	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 slept	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past	brother		length			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	seek	past	brother					vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme
3	is	past	length				late property	tree rules
4	be		length not said here					tree rules
5	make	to-infinitive	brother				sure property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	curl up	past	brother	brother	a doorway			vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient
7	sleep	past	brother not said here			morning		vn snooze-40.4-1 «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 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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