The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 80

He took to his bed, and in a short time he was dead of his disappointment.

Who acts: merchant · What happens: take, be, disappoint

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (merchant), 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 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 bed	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 bed	nmod:poss
5	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 dead	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 dead	cc
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 time	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 time	det
10	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 time	amod
11	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 dead	obl
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 dead	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 dead	cop
14	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 took	advcl
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 disappointment	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 disappointment	nmod:poss
17	disappointment	disappointment	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 dead	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	merchant		to merchant's bed result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to bed=Result
2	is	past	merchant	time	of merchant's disappointment; dead property	tree rules
3	disappoint		merchant			nom disappointment «feeling transitive»: poss=agent

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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