The Red Fairy Book, The Nettle Spinner, sentence 88

This time the Count resolved to go to Locquignol himself; but, as he was very weak and unable to walk, he had himself borne in a litter.

Who acts: Count · What happens: resolve, go, be, walk, bear · To what, where: Count, Locquignol, litter

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nettle Spinner. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Count), 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	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 time	det
2	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 resolved	obl:unmarked
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Count	det
4	Count	Count	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 resolved	nsubj
5	resolved	resolve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 go	mark
7	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 resolved	xcomp
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 Locquignol	case
9	Locquignol	Locquignol	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 go	obl
10	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	7 go	obl:unmarked
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 borne	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 borne	cc
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 but	punct
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 weak	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 weak	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 weak	cop
17	very	very	ADV	_	18 weak	advmod
18	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 borne	advcl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 unable	cc
20	unable	unable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 weak	conj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 walk	mark
22	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 unable	xcomp
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 had	punct
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 had	nsubj
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 borne	aux
26	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	25 had	obj
27	borne	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 resolved	conj
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 litter	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 litter	det
30	litter	litter	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 borne	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 resolved	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	resolve	past	the Count			time		tree rules
2	go	to-infinitive	the Count not said here	Count	Locquignol			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to locquignol=Initial_Location
3	is	past	Count				weak property	tree rules
4	be		Count not said here					tree rules
5	walk	to-infinitive	Count not said here					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	bear	past · perfect	the Count not said here		a litter			vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer

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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