The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 68

One hot summer morning, the old man was walking slowly under the cool shadows of the big trees, and without thinking where he was going, he entered a bamboo thicket.

Who acts: old man, man · What happens: walk, think, go, enter, shadow · To what, where: cool shadows, bamboo thicket, big trees · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man, 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 morning	nummod
2	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 morning	amod
3	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 morning	compound
4	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 walking	obl:unmarked
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 morning	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 man	det
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 man	amod
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 walking	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 walking	aux
10	walking	walk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
11	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	10 walking	advmod
12	under	under	ADP	_	15 shadows	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 shadows	det
14	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 shadows	amod
15	shadows	shadow	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 walking	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	19 trees	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 trees	det
18	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 trees	amod
19	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 shadows	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 entered	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 entered	cc
22	without	without	SCONJ	_	23 thinking	mark
23	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 entered	advcl
24	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	27 going	advmod
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 going	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 going	aux
27	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 thinking	ccomp
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 thinking	punct
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 entered	nsubj
30	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 walking	advcl
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 thicket	det
32	bamboo	bamboo	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 thicket	compound
33	thicket	thicket	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 entered	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 walking	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	past · progressive	the old man		the cool shadows of the big trees	morning	slowly property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under shadow=Trajectory
2	think speech: other	gerund	man not said here					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	go	past · progressive	man					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	enter	past	man	a bamboo thicket				vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme thicket=Destination
5	shadow			the big trees				nom shadow «state transitive»: of=patient

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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