The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 47

He had walked a long way and suddenly the bundle seemed to grow heavier; first he put it down under a tree, and next he thought he would look at it.

Who acts: son, bundle · What happens: walk, seem, grow, put down, think, look · To what, where: long way, bundle, tree · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (son, bundle), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 walked	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 walked	aux
3	walked	walk	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 way	det
5	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 way	amod
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 walked	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 seemed	cc
8	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	11 seemed	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 bundle	det
10	bundle	bundle	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 seemed	nsubj
11	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 way	acl:relcl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 grow	mark
13	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 seemed	xcomp
14	heavier	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	13 grow	xcomp
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 put	punct
16	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	18 put	advmod
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 put	nsubj
18	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 walked	conj
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 put	obj
20	down	down	ADP	_	18 put	compound:prt
21	under	under	ADP	_	23 tree	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 tree	det
23	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 put	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 thought	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 thought	cc
26	next	next	ADV	_	28 thought	advmod
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 thought	nsubj
28	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 walked	parataxis
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 look	nsubj
30	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 look	aux
31	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 thought	ccomp
32	at	at	ADP	_	33 it	case
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 look	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 walked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	walk	past · perfect	son	a long way			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	seem	past	the bundle	a long way not said here		suddenly property	tree rules
3	grow	to-infinitive	the bundle not said here			heavy property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	put down	past	son	bundle	a tree	first property	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme under tree=Destination
5	think speech: other	past	son			next property	vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	look	would	son			at bundle	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=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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