The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Darling, sentence 38

He was very much surprised, and sat down in a corner of his room feeling quite ashamed of himself.

Who acts: Darling · What happens: be, sit down, feel · To what, where: corner

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Darling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Darling), 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	5 surprised	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 surprised	cop
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 much	advmod
4	much	much	ADV	_	5 surprised	advmod
5	surprised	surprised	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 sat	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 sat	cc
8	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 surprised	ccomp
9	down	down	ADP	_	8 sat	compound:prt
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 corner	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 corner	det
12	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sat	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 room	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 room	nmod:poss
15	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 corner	nmod
16	feeling	feel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 sat	advcl
17	quite	quite	ADV	_	18 ashamed	advmod
18	ashamed	ashamed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 feeling	xcomp
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 himself	case
20	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	18 ashamed	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 surprised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	Darling		surprised property	tree rules
2	sit down	past	Darling not said here	a corner of Darling's room		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in corner=Location
3	feel	gerund	Darling not said here		ashamed property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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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