The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 3, sentence 51

So he hastened to depart from the fatal castle, and sought shelter in a hollow tree, where he found a forlorn looking little Grasshopper crouching in a corner, too miserable to sing.

Who acts: Peerless · What happens: hasten, depart, seek, find, look, crouch · To what, where: fatal castle, shelter, hollow tree, little Grasshopper, corner

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, 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 (Peerless), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 hastened	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 hastened	nsubj
3	hastened	hasten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 depart	mark
5	depart	depart	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 hastened	xcomp
6	from	from	ADP	_	9 castle	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 castle	det
8	fatal	fatal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 castle	amod
9	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 depart	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 sought	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 sought	cc
12	sought	seek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hastened	parataxis
13	shelter	shelter	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sought	obj
14	in	in	ADP	_	17 tree	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 tree	det
16	hollow	hollow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 tree	amod
17	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sought	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 found	punct
19	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	21 found	advmod
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 found	nsubj
21	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 sought	conj
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 looking	det
23	forlorn	forlorn	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 looking	compound
24	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 found	advcl
25	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 Grasshopper	amod
26	Grasshopper	Grasshopper	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 looking	obj
27	crouching	crouch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 looking	advcl
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 corner	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 corner	det
30	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 crouching	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 miserable	punct
32	too	too	ADV	_	33 miserable	advmod
33	miserable	miserable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 corner	conj
34	to	to	PART	_	35 sing	mark
35	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 miserable	xcomp
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 hastened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	hasten	past	Peerless			tree rules
2	depart	to-infinitive	Peerless not said here		the fatal castle	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from castle=Initial_Location
3	seek	past		shelter	a hollow tree	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent shelter=Theme in tree=Location
4	find	past	Peerless			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
5	look	gerund	Peerless not said here	little Grasshopper		vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme grasshopper=Attribute
6	crouch	gerund	Peerless not said here		a corner	vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in corner=Location
7	sing speech: express	to-infinitive	Peerless not said here			vn sound_emission-43.2 «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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