The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 88

Hardly able to breathe from excitement, he sat down and hunted eagerly through the plant which he had torn up.

Who acts: sky · What happens: breathe, sit down, hunt, tear up · To what, where: excitement, plant

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sky), 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	Hardly	hardly	ADV	_	2 able	advmod
2	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 breathe	mark
4	breathe	breathe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 able	xcomp
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 excitement	case
6	excitement	excitement	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 breathe	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 sat	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 sat	nsubj
9	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 able	parataxis
10	down	down	ADP	_	9 sat	compound:prt
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 hunted	cc
12	hunted	hunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 sat	conj
13	eagerly	eagerly	ADV	_	12 hunted	advmod
14	through	through	ADP	_	16 plant	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 plant	det
16	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hunted	obl
17	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 torn	nsubj:pass
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 torn	nsubj
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 torn	aux
20	torn	tear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 plant	acl:relcl
21	up	up	ADP	_	20 torn	compound:prt
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 able	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	breathe	to-infinitive			excitement		vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	sit down	past	sky				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	hunt	past	sky not said here		the plant	eagerly property	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent through plant=Location
4	tear up	past · perfect · passive		the plant			vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=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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