The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 175

“I’ll surely be able to find a way out,” said he, and groping about he at length found his way back to the room, and fell asleep at his fire.

Who acts: way, groping · What happens: be, find, say, grope, fall, fire · To what, where: way, length, fire · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (way, groping), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	6 able	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 able	nsubj
3	’ll	'll	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 able	cop
4	surely	surely	ADV	_	6 able	advmod
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 able	cop
6	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 said	ccomp
7	to	to	PART	_	8 find	mark
8	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 able	xcomp
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 way	det
10	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 find	obj
11	out	out	ADV	_	10 way	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 able	punct
13	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 able	punct
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 said	nsubj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 found	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 found	cc
18	groping	grope	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 found	csubj
19	about	about	ADP	_	20 he	case
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 groping	obl
21	at	at	ADP	_	22 length	case
22	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 groping	obl
23	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 said	parataxis
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 way	nmod:poss
25	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 found	obj
26	back	back	ADV	_	25 way	advmod
27	to	to	ADP	_	29 room	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 room	det
29	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 back	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 fell	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 fell	cc
32	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 found	conj
33	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 fell	xcomp
34	at	at	ADP	_	36 fire	case
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 fire	nmod:poss
36	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 fell	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	way			able, surely property	tree rules
2	find in a quote	to-infinitive	way not said here	a way			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic
3	say speech: assert	past	way				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	grope	gerund			length	about way	vn rummage-35.5-1 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent about he=Location
5	find	past	groping	way's way			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic
6	fall	past	groping not said here		way's fire	asleep property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at fire=Location
7	fire		way				nom fire «event transitive»: poss=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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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