The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 87

Next morning, when he awoke, he began to wish himself over the moat; and the thought occurred to him that if only the red ox were there, and thirsty enough to drink up all the water in the moat, he might walk across it dry shod.

Who acts: youth, thought, red ox · What happens: awake, begin, wish, occur, be, drink up · To what, where: youth, moat, water, thought

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 (youth, thought, red ox), 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	Next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 morning	amod
2	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 awoke	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 morning	punct
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 awoke	advmod
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 awoke	nsubj
6	awoke	awake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 began	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 began	nsubj
9	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 awoke	conj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 wish	mark
11	wish	wish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 began	xcomp
12	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	11 wish	iobj
13	over	over	ADP	_	15 moat	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 moat	det
15	moat	moat	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 wish	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 occurred	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 occurred	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 thought	det
19	thought	thought	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 occurred	nsubj
20	occurred	occur	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 awoke	conj
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 him	case
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 occurred	obl
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 there	mark
24	if	if	SCONJ	_	30 there	mark
25	only	only	ADV	_	28 ox	advmod
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 ox	det
27	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 ox	amod
28	ox	ox	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 there	nsubj
29	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 there	cop
30	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 occurred	advcl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 thirsty	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 thirsty	cc
33	thirsty	thirsty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 occurred	conj
34	enough	enough	ADV	_	33 thirsty	advmod
35	to	to	PART	_	36 drink	mark
36	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 thirsty	advcl
37	up	up	ADP	_	36 drink	compound:prt
38	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	40 water	det:predet
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 water	det
40	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 drink	obj
41	in	in	ADP	_	43 moat	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 moat	det
43	moat	moat	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 drink	obl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 walk	punct
45	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 walk	nsubj
46	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	47 walk	aux
47	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 occurred	advcl
48	across	across	ADP	_	49 it	case
49	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 walk	obl
50	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 walk	xcomp
51	shod	shoe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	47 walk	obl
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 awoke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	awake	past	youth				morning		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	begin	past	youth						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	wish	to-infinitive	youth not said here		youth	the moat			vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot himself=Theme
4	occur	past	the thought		youth				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is a condition, not said to happen	past	the red ox					there property	tree rules
6	drink up	to-infinitive	the thought not said here	all water		the moat			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient
7	walk	might	youth			thought		dry property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across it=Trajectory
8	shoe	participle							vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=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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