The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 121

At last, when he was ready to drop from fatigue, he found himself on the edge of a great marsh, which bordered on one side the country of the nyamatsanes.

Who acts: husband, great marsh · What happens: be, drop, find, border · To what, where: last, fatigue, husband, edge, one side

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husband, great marsh), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 ready	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 last	punct
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 ready	advmod
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 ready	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 ready	cop
7	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 drop	mark
9	drop	drop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 ready	xcomp
10	from	from	ADP	_	11 fatigue	case
11	fatigue	fatigue	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 drop	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 found	punct
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 found	nsubj
14	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 ready	conj
15	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	14 found	obj
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 edge	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 edge	det
18	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 found	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	22 marsh	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 marsh	det
21	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 marsh	amod
22	marsh	marsh	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 edge	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 bordered	punct
24	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 bordered	nsubj
25	bordered	border	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 marsh	acl:relcl
26	on	on	ADP	_	28 side	case
27	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 side	nummod
28	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 bordered	obl
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 country	det
30	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 side	appos
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 nyamatsanes	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 nyamatsanes	det
33	nyamatsanes	nyamatsane	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 country	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 ready	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	husband		last	ready property	tree rules
2	drop	to-infinitive	husband not said here		fatigue		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme from fatigue=Trajectory
3	find	past	husband	husband	the edge of a great marsh		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic
4	border	past	a great marsh		one side		vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme

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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