The Red Fairy Book, The Norka, sentence 16

But he took his arms, and went straight into the park, and sat down on the grass in such a position that the moment he went asleep his weapons would prick him, and he would awake.

Who acts: end, moment, asleep weapons · What happens: take, go, sit down, prick, awake · To what, where: arms, park, grass, end

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Norka. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (end, moment, asleep weapons), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 took	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 took	nsubj
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 arms	nmod:poss
5	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 took	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 went	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 went	cc
8	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
9	straight	straight	ADV	_	12 park	advmod
10	into	into	ADP	_	12 park	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 park	det
12	park	park	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 went	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 sat	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 sat	cc
15	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
16	down	down	ADP	_	15 sat	compound:prt
17	on	on	ADP	_	19 grass	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 grass	det
19	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 sat	obl
20	in	in	ADP	_	23 position	case
21	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	23 position	det:predet
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 position	det
23	position	position	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 sat	obl
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 went	mark
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 moment	det
26	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 went	nsubj
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 went	nsubj
28	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 sat	advcl
29	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 weapons	amod
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 weapons	nmod:poss
31	weapons	weapon	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 prick	nsubj
32	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 prick	aux
33	prick	prick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 went	ccomp
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 prick	obj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 awake	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 awake	cc
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 awake	nsubj
38	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 awake	aux
39	awake	awake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 took	conj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	past	end	end's arms			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Theme
2	go	past	end not said here		the park		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into park=Initial_Location
3	sit down	past	end not said here		the grass	in such position	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on grass=Location
4	go	past	the moment				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	prick	would	end's asleep weapons	end			vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Patient
6	awake	would	end				vn appear-48.1.1 «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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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