The Blue Fairy Book, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners, sentence 10
Weary of seeking his way, he flung himself down under a tree, leaving his horse to browse at will, and fell asleep.
Who acts: man, horse · What happens: seek, fling down, leave, browse, fall · To what, where: way, man, tree, horse
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, horse), 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 | Weary | weary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 3 seeking | mark |
| 3 | seeking | seek | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Weary | advcl |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 way | nmod:poss |
| 5 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 seeking | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 flung | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 flung | nsubj |
| 8 | flung | fling | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Weary | parataxis |
| 9 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 8 flung | obj |
| 10 | down | down | ADP | _ | 8 flung | compound:prt |
| 11 | under | under | ADP | _ | 13 tree | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 tree | det |
| 13 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 flung | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 leaving | punct |
| 15 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 flung | advcl |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 horse | nmod:poss |
| 17 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 leaving | obj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 browse | mark |
| 19 | browse | browse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 leaving | xcomp |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 will | case |
| 21 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 browse | advcl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 fell | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 fell | cc |
| 24 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 flung | conj |
| 25 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 fell | xcomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Weary | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seek | gerund | man's way | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme | |||||
| 2 | fling down | past | man | man | a tree | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent himself=Theme under tree=Destination | |||
| 3 | leave | gerund | man not said here | man's horse | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | browse | to-infinitive | man's horse not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | fall | past | man not said here | asleep property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=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 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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