The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 78

After he had got through the wood, there was more than one road, and he was in doubt which of them was the right one, so he sat down and opened up his bundle of provisions.

Who acts: way, one road, doubt · What happens: get, be, sit down, open up · To what, where: wood, doubt, right one, bundle

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (way, one road, doubt), 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	After	after	SCONJ	_	4 got	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 got	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 got	aux
4	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 was	advcl
5	through	through	ADP	_	7 wood	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 wood	det
7	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 got	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 got	punct
9	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	10 was	expl
10	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 sat	parataxis
11	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	13 one	advmod
12	than	than	ADP	_	11 more	fixed
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 road	nummod
14	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 was	nsubj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 doubt	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 doubt	cc
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 doubt	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 doubt	cop
19	in	in	ADP	_	20 doubt	case
20	doubt	doubt	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 road	conj
21	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 one	nsubj
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 them	case
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 one	obl
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 one	cop
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 one	det
26	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 one	amod
27	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 doubt	parataxis
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 sat	punct
29	so	so	ADV	_	31 sat	advmod
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 sat	nsubj
31	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
32	down	down	ADP	_	31 sat	compound:prt
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 opened	cc
34	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 sat	conj
35	up	up	ADP	_	34 opened	compound:prt
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 bundle	nmod:poss
37	bundle	bundle	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 opened	obj
38	of	of	ADP	_	39 provisions	case
39	provisions	provision	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 bundle	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	31 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	get	past · perfect	way		the wood		vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme through wood=Destination
2	be	past	one road and doubt		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	past	way		doubt		tree rules
4	is a	past	doubt	the right one		of provisions = provision	tree rules
5	sit down	past	way				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	open up	past	way not said here	way's bundle of provisions			vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bundle=Patient

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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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