The Blue Fairy Book, The Terrible Head, sentence 30
There he went and sat down on a rock, looking toward the sea, and wondering how he should begin to fulfill his vow.
Who acts: boy · What happens: go, sit down, look, wonder, begin, fulfill · To what, where: rock, vow · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Terrible Head. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 went | expl |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 sat | cc |
| 5 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 6 | down | down | ADP | _ | 5 sat | compound:prt |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 rock | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 rock | det |
| 9 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sat | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 looking | punct |
| 11 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 sat | advcl |
| 12 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 14 sea | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 sea | det |
| 14 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 looking | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 wondering | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 wondering | cc |
| 17 | wondering | wonder | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 went | advcl |
| 18 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 begin | advmod |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 begin | nsubj |
| 20 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 begin | aux |
| 21 | begin | begin | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 wondering | ccomp |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 fulfill | mark |
| 23 | fulfill | fulfill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 begin | xcomp |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 vow | nmod:poss |
| 25 | vow | vow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 fulfill | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | boy | there | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | sit down | past | boy not said here | a rock | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on rock=Location | ||||
| 3 | look | gerund | boy not said here | toward the sea | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent toward sea=Theme | ||||
| 4 | wonder speech: ask | gerund | boy not said here | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | begin | should | boy | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | fulfill | to-infinitive | boy not said here | boy's vow | vn act-114 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vow=Eventuality | ||||
| 7 | vow | boy | nom vow «communication 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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