The Violet Fairy Book, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water., sentence 12

He sat down and thought over the matter a long time, and at last he made a plan.

Who acts: foot · What happens: sit down, think, make · To what, where: matter, plan, last

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (foot), 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 sat	nsubj
2	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	down	down	ADP	_	2 sat	compound:prt
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 thought	cc
5	thought	think	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 sat	conj
6	over	over	ADP	_	8 matter	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 matter	det
8	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 thought	obl
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 time	det
10	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 time	amod
11	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 thought	obl:unmarked
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 made	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 made	cc
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 last	case
15	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 made	obl
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 made	nsubj
17	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sat	conj
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 plan	det
19	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 made	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	sit down	past	foot				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	think speech: other	participle	foot not said here		the matter	time	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	make	past	foot	a plan	last		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plan=Product

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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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