The Red Fairy Book, Soria Moria Castle, sentence 127
At daybreak he set off again, for he did not feel as if he could take any rest.
Who acts: Halvor · What happens: set off, not feel, take · To what, where: daybreak, rest
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Soria Moria Castle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Halvor), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 daybreak | case |
| 2 | daybreak | daybreak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 set | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 set | nsubj |
| 4 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | off | off | ADP | _ | 4 set | compound:prt |
| 6 | again | again | ADV | _ | 4 set | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 feel | punct |
| 8 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 12 feel | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 feel | nsubj |
| 10 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 feel | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 feel | advmod |
| 12 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 set | conj |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 take | mark |
| 14 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 17 take | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 take | nsubj |
| 16 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 take | aux |
| 17 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 feel | advcl |
| 18 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 rest | det |
| 19 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 take | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set off | past | Halvor | daybreak | again | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | not feel | past · do-support | Halvor | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | take | could | Halvor | any rest | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rest=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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