The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 126

There he entered an inn where he sat down in the public room, and got something to eat.

Who acts: work · What happens: enter, sit down, get, eat · To what, where: inn, public room, something

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (work), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 entered	expl
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 entered	nsubj
3	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 inn	det
5	inn	inn	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 entered	obj
6	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	8 sat	advmod
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 sat	nsubj
8	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 inn	acl:relcl
9	down	down	ADP	_	8 sat	compound:prt
10	in	in	ADP	_	13 room	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 room	det
12	public	public	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 room	amod
13	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sat	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 got	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 got	cc
16	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 entered	conj
17	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	16 got	obj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 eat	mark
19	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 something	acl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 entered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	enter	past	work	a inn	there	vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme inn=Destination
2	sit down	past	work		the public room	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in room=Location
3	get	past	work not said here	something		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer something=Stimulus
4	eat	to-infinitive	work not said here	something not said here		vn eat-39.1-1 «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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