The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 69

He had not been there for an hour before he had come to his senses, and thought, ‘It’s best to stop now, while the game is going well.’

Who acts: remainder, game · What happens: have, not be, come, think, be, stop · To what, where: senses · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (remainder, game), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 there	advmod
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 there	cop
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 had	advmod
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 hour	case
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 hour	det
8	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obl
9	before	before	SCONJ	_	12 come	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 come	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 come	aux
12	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 had	advcl
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 senses	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 senses	nmod:poss
15	senses	sens	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 come	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 thought	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 thought	cc
18	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 best	punct
20	‘	'	PUNCT	_	23 best	punct
21	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 best	expl
22	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 best	cop
23	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	18 thought	ccomp
24	to	to	PART	_	25 stop	mark
25	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 best	csubj
26	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	25 stop	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 going	punct
28	while	while	SCONJ	_	32 going	mark
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 game	det
30	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 going	nsubj
31	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 going	aux
32	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 thought	ccomp
33	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	32 going	advmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	32 going	punct
35	’	'	PUNCT	_	32 going	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	remainder		hour		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	not is	participle				there property	tree rules
3	come	past · perfect	remainder	remainder's senses			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to sens=Initial_Location
4	think speech: other	past	remainder not said here				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	is	present				good property	tree rules
6	stop	to-infinitive			now		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
7	go	present · progressive	the game			well property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: 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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