The Red Fairy Book, Soria Moria Castle, sentence 38
He gave himself no rest, but walked or ran the livelong day.
Who acts: Halvor · What happens: give, walk, run · To what, where: rest, Halvor
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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 gave | nsubj |
| 2 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 2 gave | iobj |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 rest | det |
| 5 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gave | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 walked | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 walked | cc |
| 8 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 gave | parataxis |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 ran | cc |
| 10 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 walked | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 day | det |
| 12 | livelong | livelong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 day | amod |
| 13 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ran | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | Halvor | no rest | Halvor | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent himself=Recipient rest=Theme | |||
| 2 | walk | past | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | run | past | day | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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