The Red Fairy Book, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen., sentence 69
At length I came to an old kiln, and being much fatigued I went up and lay on the ribs.
Who acts: I · What happens: come, fatigue, go up, lay · To what, where: length, ribs
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 (I), 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 length | case |
| 2 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 kiln | case |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 kiln | det |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 kiln | amod |
| 8 | kiln | kiln | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 fatigued | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 fatigued | cc |
| 11 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 fatigued | aux:pass |
| 12 | much | much | ADV | _ | 13 fatigued | advmod |
| 13 | fatigued | fatigue | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 went | advcl |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 went | nsubj |
| 15 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | parataxis |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 went | compound:prt |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 lay | cc |
| 18 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 15 went | conj |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 ribs | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 ribs | det |
| 21 | ribs | rib | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 lay | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | I | length | to a old kiln | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to kiln=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | fatigue | gerund · passive | I not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» | |||||
| 3 | go up | past | I | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | lay | infinitive | I not said here | the ribs | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on rib=Destination |
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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