The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 94

After he had walked some distance he grew both tired and hungry, so he sat down on the east side of a mound and began to eat his dry bread.

Who acts: man · What happens: walk, grow, sit down, begin, eat · To what, where: distance, east side, dry bread

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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 walked	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 walked	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 walked	aux
4	walked	walk	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 grew	advcl
5	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	6 distance	det
6	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 walked	obj
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 grew	nsubj
8	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	both	both	ADV	_	10 tired	advmod
10	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 grew	xcomp
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 hungry	cc
12	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 tired	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 sat	punct
14	so	so	ADV	_	16 sat	advmod
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 sat	nsubj
16	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 grew	conj
17	down	down	ADP	_	16 sat	compound:prt
18	on	on	ADP	_	21 side	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 side	det
20	east	east	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 side	amod
21	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sat	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 mound	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 mound	det
24	mound	mound	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 side	nmod
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 began	cc
26	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 sat	conj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 eat	mark
28	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 began	xcomp
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 bread	nmod:poss
30	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 bread	amod
31	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 eat	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	walk	past · perfect	man	some distance			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme distance=Trajectory
2	grow	past	man			tired property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	sit down	past	man		the east side of a mound		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on side=Location
4	begin	past	man not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	eat	to-infinitive	man not said here	man's dry bread			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=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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