The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1, sentence 25

But when the sun was once more high in the heavens, Ferko felt the blazing heat scorch him, and sought for some cool shady place to rest his aching limbs.

Who acts: sun, Ferko · What happens: be, feel, seek, rest · To what, where: heavens, blazing heat scorch, aching limbs

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun, Ferko), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	8 high	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 high	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sun	det
4	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 high	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 high	cop
6	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	7 more	advmod
7	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 high	advmod
8	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 heavens	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 heavens	det
11	heavens	heaven	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 high	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 felt	punct
13	Ferko	Ferko	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 felt	nsubj
14	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 high	parataxis
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 scorch	det
16	blazing	blazing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 scorch	amod
17	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 scorch	compound
18	scorch	scorch	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 felt	obj
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 scorch	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 sought	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 sought	cc
22	sought	seek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 felt	conj
23	for	for	ADP	_	27 place	case
24	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	27 place	det
25	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 place	amod
26	shady	shady	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 place	amod
27	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 sought	obl
28	to	to	PART	_	29 rest	mark
29	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 sought	advcl
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 limbs	nmod:poss
31	aching	aching	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 limbs	compound
32	limbs	limb	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 rest	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 high	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the sun		the heavens	high property	tree rules
2	feel	past	Ferko	the blazing heat scorch			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scorch=Theme
3	seek	past	Ferko not said here			for some cool shady place	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for place=Theme
4	rest	to-infinitive	Ferko not said here	Ferko's aching limbs			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location limb=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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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