The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 49

The carpenter knew nothing about being ill; he only thought that he wanted something to eat, so he sat down at the table and began his dinner.

Who acts: carpenter · What happens: know, be, think, want, eat, sit down · To what, where: nothing, something, table, dinner · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (carpenter), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 carpenter	det
2	carpenter	carpenter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 knew	nsubj
3	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 knew	obj
5	about	about	SCONJ	_	7 ill	mark
6	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 ill	cop
7	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 nothing	acl
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 thought	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 thought	nsubj
10	only	only	ADV	_	11 thought	advmod
11	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 knew	conj
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 wanted	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 wanted	nsubj
14	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 thought	ccomp
15	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	14 wanted	obj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 eat	mark
17	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 something	acl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 sat	punct
19	so	so	ADV	_	21 sat	advmod
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 sat	nsubj
21	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 knew	parataxis
22	down	down	ADP	_	21 sat	compound:prt
23	at	at	ADP	_	25 table	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 table	det
25	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 sat	obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 began	cc
27	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 sat	conj
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 dinner	nmod:poss
29	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 began	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	know	past	the carpenter	nothing			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus
2	is	gerund				ill property	tree rules
3	think speech: other	past	carpenter				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	want	past	carpenter	something			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot something=Theme
5	eat	to-infinitive	carpenter not said here	something not said here			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	sit down	past	carpenter		the table		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at table=Location
7	begin	past	carpenter not said here	carpenter's dinner			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dinner=Eventuality

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/32/49/