The Blue Fairy Book, The Brave Little Tailor, sentence 22

Then he went on his way merrily, and being light and agile he never felt tired.

Who acts: field · What happens: go, be, not feel · To what, where: way

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brave Little Tailor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (field), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 went	advmod
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	on	on	ADP	_	6 way	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 way	nmod:poss
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
7	merrily	merrily	ADV	_	6 way	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 light	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 light	cc
10	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 light	cop
11	light	light	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 went	parataxis
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 agile	cc
13	agile	agile	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 light	conj
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 felt	nsubj
15	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	16 felt	advmod
16	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	parataxis
17	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 felt	xcomp
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	field	field's way	then		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on way=Location
2	is	gerund				light property	tree rules
3	be						tree rules
4	not feel	past	field			tired 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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