The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 104

He rode on, struggling with his sufferings, but at last he could bear it no longer.

Who acts: adventurer · What happens: ride on, struggle, bear, suffer · To what, where: gourd, last

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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 rode	nsubj
2	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	2 rode	compound:prt
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 struggling	punct
5	struggling	struggle	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 rode	advcl
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 sufferings	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 sufferings	nmod:poss
8	sufferings	suffering	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 struggling	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 bear	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 bear	cc
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 last	case
12	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 bear	obl
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 bear	nsubj
14	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 bear	aux
15	bear	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 rode	conj
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 bear	obj
17	no	no	ADV	_	18 longer	advmod
18	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	15 bear	advmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 rode	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	ride on	past	adventurer				vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
2	struggle	gerund	adventurer not said here			with adventurer's sufferings	vn battle-36.4 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with suffering=Co-Agent
3	bear	could	adventurer	gourd	last	long property	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
4	suffer		adventurer				nom suffering «state intransitive»: 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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