The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 3, sentence 104

And ferreting thus from room to room he came at last to the one with the throne in it, and feeling fatigued, he sat himself down on it to think over his adventure.

Who acts: Drakestail · What happens: ferret, come, fatigue, sit down, think, adventure · To what, where: room, last, Drakestail, throne, adventure

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Kari Woodengown, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Drakestail), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	2 ferreting	cc
2	ferreting	ferret	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	thus	thus	ADV	_	2 ferreting	advmod
4	from	from	ADP	_	5 room	case
5	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ferreting	obl
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 room	case
7	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 room	nmod
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 came	nsubj
9	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 room	acl:relcl
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 last	case
11	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 came	obl
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 one	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 one	det
14	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 last	nmod
15	with	with	ADP	_	17 throne	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 throne	det
17	throne	throne	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 one	nmod
18	in	in	ADP	_	19 it	case
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 throne	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 fatigued	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 fatigued	cc
22	feeling	feel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 fatigued	aux:pass
23	fatigued	fatigue	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 ferreting	parataxis
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 sat	punct
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 sat	nsubj
26	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 fatigued	conj
27	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	26 sat	obj
28	down	down	ADP	_	26 sat	compound:prt
29	on	on	ADP	_	30 it	case
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 sat	obl
31	to	to	PART	_	32 think	mark
32	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 sat	advcl
33	over	over	ADP	_	35 adventure	case
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 adventure	nmod:poss
35	adventure	adventure	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 think	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 ferreting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	ferret	gerund			room to room	thus property	tree rules
2	come	past	Drakestail	room not said here	last to the one with the throne in throne		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location room=Theme
3	fatigue	gerund · passive					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»
4	sit down	past	Drakestail	Drakestail	throne		tree rules
5	think speech: other	to-infinitive	Drakestail not said here		Drakestail's adventure		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	adventure		Drakestail				nom adventure «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 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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