The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 22

Then he went, all dressed for a journey, to the bedside of Tubby, and found him smoking his first pipe.

Who acts: Désiré · What happens: go, dress, find, smoke · To what, where: Désiré, first pipe

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 (Désiré), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 went	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 dressed	punct
5	all	all	ADV	_	6 dressed	advmod
6	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 went	xcomp
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 journey	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 journey	det
9	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dressed	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 bedside	punct
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 bedside	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 bedside	det
13	bedside	bedside	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dressed	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 Tubby	case
15	Tubby	Tubby	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 bedside	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 found	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 found	cc
18	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 found	obj
20	smoking	smoke	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 found	xcomp
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 pipe	nmod:poss
22	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	23 pipe	amod
23	pipe	pipe	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 smoking	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	Désiré		then		vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	dress	participle	Désiré not said here			for a journey; to the bedside of Tubby; all property	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	find	past	Désiré not said here	Désiré			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent he=Attribute clause=Theme
4	smoke	gerund	Désiré not said here	Désiré's first pipe			vn eat-39.1-1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent pipe=Source

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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