The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 102

About mid-day he reached a sandy plain, scorching in the sun. Here he was seized with dreadful thirst; he took his gourd and raised it to his lips.

Who acts: adventurer · What happens: reach, scorch, seize, take, raise · To what, where: sandy plain, sun., adventurer, gourd, lips

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Canary. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (adventurer), 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	About	about	ADP	_	2 mid-day	case
2	mid-day	mid-day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reached	obl
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 reached	nsubj
4	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 plain	det
6	sandy	sandy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 plain	amod
7	plain	plain	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reached	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 scorching	punct
9	scorching	scorch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 reached	advcl
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 sun.	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 sun.	det
12	sun.	sun.	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 scorching	obl
13	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 sun.	advmod
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 seized	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 seized	aux:pass
16	seized	seize	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 sun.	acl:relcl
17	with	with	ADP	_	19 thirst	case
18	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 thirst	amod
19	thirst	thirst	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 seized	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 took	punct
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 took	nsubj
22	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 reached	parataxis
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 gourd	nmod:poss
24	gourd	gourd	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 took	obj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 raised	cc
26	raised	raise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 took	conj
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 raised	obj
28	to	to	ADP	_	30 lips	case
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 lips	nmod:poss
30	lips	lip	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 raised	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 reached	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	reach	past	adventurer	a sandy plain		about mid-day	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent plain=Theme
2	scorch	gerund	adventurer not said here		the sun.		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	seize	past · passive		adventurer		with dreadful thirst	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	take	past	adventurer	adventurer's gourd			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gourd=Theme
5	raise	past	adventurer not said here	gourd	adventurer's lips		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to lip=Destination

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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