The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 124

So he toiled wearily back, till he reached the shore, and here he sat sadly on a rock, and called loudly on the turtle.

Who acts: man · What happens: toil, reach, sit, call · To what, where: shore, rock, turtle · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3. 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 toiled	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 toiled	nsubj
3	toiled	toil	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	wearily	wearily	ADV	_	5 back	advmod
5	back	back	ADV	_	3 toiled	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 reached	punct
7	till	till	SCONJ	_	9 reached	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 reached	nsubj
9	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 toiled	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 shore	det
11	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 reached	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 sat	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 sat	cc
14	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	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	3 toiled	parataxis
17	sadly	sadly	ADV	_	16 sat	advmod
18	on	on	ADP	_	20 rock	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 rock	det
20	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sat	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 called	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 called	cc
23	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 sat	conj
24	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	23 called	advmod
25	on	on	ADP	_	27 turtle	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 turtle	det
27	turtle	turtle	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 called	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 toiled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	toil	past	man				vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	reach	past	man	the shore			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent shore=Theme
3	sit	past	man		a rock; here	sadly property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on rock=Location
4	call	participle	man not said here		the turtle	loudly property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: 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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