The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 112
At last he got so tired with running to and fro that he gave up heart.
Who acts: youth · What happens: get, run, give up · To what, where: last, heart
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth), 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 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 got | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 got | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 tired | advmod |
| 6 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 got | xcomp |
| 7 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 8 running | mark |
| 8 | running | run | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 tired | advcl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 running | fixed |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 gave | cc |
| 11 | fro | for | SCONJ | _ | 14 gave | mark |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 gave | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 gave | nsubj |
| 14 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 got | conj |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 gave | compound:prt |
| 16 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 gave | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | youth | last | tired property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | run | gerund | youth not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | give up | past | youth | heart | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Source |
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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