The Red Fairy Book, Soria Moria Castle, sentence 14
So as he had now been walking the whole day and had not brought anything to eat away with him, he was frightfully hungry.
Who acts: Halvor · What happens: walk, not bring, eat away, be · To what, where: anything
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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 25 hungry | advmod |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 walking | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 walking | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 walking | aux |
| 5 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 walking | advmod |
| 6 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 walking | aux |
| 7 | walking | walk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 hungry | advcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 day | det |
| 9 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 day | amod |
| 10 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 walking | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 brought | cc |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 brought | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 brought | advmod |
| 14 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 walking | conj |
| 15 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 14 brought | obj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 eat | mark |
| 17 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 anything | acl |
| 18 | away | away | ADV | _ | 17 eat | advmod |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 him | case |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 eat | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 walking | punct |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 hungry | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 hungry | cop |
| 24 | frightfully | frightfully | ADV | _ | 25 hungry | advmod |
| 25 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 hungry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past · perfect · progressive | Halvor | now; day | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not bring | past · perfect | Halvor not said here | anything | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent anything=Theme | ||||
| 3 | eat away | to-infinitive | Halvor not said here | anything not said here | with Halvor; away property | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | is | past | Halvor | frightfully, hungry property | tree rules |
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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