The Red Fairy Book, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen., sentence 128

However, when he had eaten all he began to drink hot liquors in great abundance, so that in a short time he could not hold up his head, but threw himself on a large creel he had made for the purpose, and fell fast asleep.

Who acts: fear · What happens: eat, begin, drink, not hold up, throw, make · To what, where: hot liquors, great abundance, head, fear, large creel

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fear), 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	However	however	ADV	_	9 began	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 However	punct
3	when	when	SCONJ	_	6 eaten	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 eaten	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 eaten	aux
6	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 began	advcl
7	all	all	ADV	_	6 eaten	advmod
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 began	nsubj
9	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	to	to	PART	_	11 drink	mark
11	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 began	xcomp
12	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 liquors	amod
13	liquors	liquor	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 drink	obj
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 abundance	case
15	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 abundance	amod
16	abundance	abundance	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 drink	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 hold	punct
18	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	27 hold	mark
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 so	fixed
20	in	in	ADP	_	23 time	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 time	det
22	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 time	amod
23	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 hold	obl
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 hold	nsubj
25	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 hold	aux
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 hold	advmod
27	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 began	parataxis
28	up	up	ADP	_	27 hold	compound:prt
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 head	nmod:poss
30	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 hold	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 threw	punct
32	but	but	CCONJ	_	33 threw	cc
33	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 began	conj
34	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	33 threw	obj
35	on	on	ADP	_	38 creel	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 creel	det
37	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 creel	amod
38	creel	creel	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 threw	obl
39	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 made	nsubj
40	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 made	aux
41	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	38 creel	acl:relcl
42	for	for	ADP	_	44 purpose	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 purpose	det
44	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 made	obl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 fell	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 fell	cc
47	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 began	conj
48	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	47 fell	advmod
49	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 fell	xcomp
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past · perfect	fear				all property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	begin	past	fear				however property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	drink	to-infinitive	fear not said here	hot liquors	great abundance			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent liquor=Patient
4	not hold up	could	fear	fear's head		time		vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot head=Theme
5	throw	past	fear not said here	fear	a large creel			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent himself=Theme on creel=Destination
6	make	past · perfect	fear	a large creel not said here			for the purpose	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent creel=Product for purpose=Asset
7	fall	past	fear not said here				asleep, fast property	vn occur-48.3 «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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