The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 55

He walked on and on till he thought it must be time for breakfast; so he opened his knapsack, and was delighted to find such a store of good things.

Who acts: man, supply · What happens: walk, think, be, open, find · To what, where: time, knapsack, store · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, supply), 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 walked	nsubj
2	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADV	_	2 walked	advmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 on	cc
5	on	on	ADV	_	3 on	conj
6	till	till	SCONJ	_	8 thought	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 thought	nsubj
8	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 walked	advcl
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 time	nsubj
10	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 time	aux
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 time	cop
12	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 thought	ccomp
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 breakfast	case
14	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 time	nmod
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 opened	punct
16	so	so	ADV	_	18 opened	advmod
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 opened	nsubj
18	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 walked	parataxis
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 knapsack	nmod:poss
20	knapsack	knapsack	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 opened	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 delighted	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 delighted	cc
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 delighted	cop
24	delighted	delighted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 opened	advcl
25	to	to	PART	_	26 find	mark
26	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 delighted	advcl
27	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	29 store	det:predet
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 store	det
29	store	store	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 find	obj
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 things	case
31	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 things	amod
32	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 store	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 walked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	walk	past	man			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	think speech: other	past	man			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	must	supply	time	for breakfast	tree rules
4	open	past	man	man's knapsack		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location knapsack=Theme
5	is	past	man not said here		delighted property	tree rules
6	find	to-infinitive	man not said here	such store of good things		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent store=Topic

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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