The Blue Fairy Book, Little Thumb, sentence 120

The Ogre, who found himself much tired with his long and fruitless journey (for these boots of seven leagues greatly fatigued the wearer), had a great mind to rest himself, and, by chance, went to sit down upon the rock where the little boys had hid themselves.

Who acts: Ogre, chance, little boys · What happens: find, fatigue, have, rest, go, sit down · To what, where: ogre, wearer, great mind, rock, boys

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Little Thumb. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ogre, chance, little boys), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Ogre	det
2	Ogre	Ogre	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 had	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 found	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 found	nsubj
5	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Ogre	acl:relcl
6	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 found	obj
7	much	much	ADV	_	8 tired	advmod
8	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 found	xcomp
9	with	with	ADP	_	14 journey	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 journey	nmod:poss
11	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 journey	amod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 fruitless	cc
13	fruitless	fruitless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 long	conj
14	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tired	obl
15	(	(	PUNCT	_	23 fatigued	punct
16	for	for	ADP	_	18 boots	case
17	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	18 boots	det
18	boots	boot	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 fatigued	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 leagues	case
20	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 leagues	nummod
21	leagues	league	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 fatigued	obl
22	greatly	greatly	ADV	_	23 fatigued	advmod
23	fatigued	fatigue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 found	conj
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 wearer	det
25	wearer	wearer	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 fatigued	obj
26	)	)	PUNCT	_	23 fatigued	punct
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Ogre	punct
28	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 mind	det
30	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 mind	amod
31	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 had	obj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 rest	mark
33	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 had	advcl
34	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	33 rest	obj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 went	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 went	cc
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 chance	punct
38	by	by	ADP	_	39 chance	case
39	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 went	nsubj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 chance	punct
41	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 had	parataxis
42	to	to	PART	_	43 sit	mark
43	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 went	xcomp
44	down	down	ADP	_	43 sit	compound:prt
45	upon	upon	ADP	_	47 rock	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 rock	det
47	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 sit	obl
48	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	52 had	advmod
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 boys	det
50	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 boys	amod
51	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	52 had	nsubj
52	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 rock	acl
53	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 went	conj
54	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	53 hid	obj
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	28 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	find	past	the Ogre	ogre		tired property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic
2	fatigue	past	the Ogre not said here	the wearer		for this boots; of seven leagues; greatly property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus wearer=Experiencer
3	have	past	the Ogre	a great mind			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Patient
4	rest	to-infinitive	the Ogre not said here	ogre			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location himself=Theme
5	go	past	chance				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	sit down	to-infinitive	chance not said here		the rock		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon rock=Location
7	have	past	the little boys				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
8	hide	past	chance not said here	boys = boy			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient
9	journey		ogre				nom journey «act 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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