The Violet Fairy Book, Two in a Sack, sentence 18

His home was a good long way off, and as it was growing dark, and he was feeling tired, he stopped to rest at his cousin’s house by the way.

Who acts: home, crane · What happens: be, grow, feel, stop, rest · To what, where: good long way, house

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Two in a Sack. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (home, crane), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 home	nmod:poss
2	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 way	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 way	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 way	det
5	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 way	amod
6	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 way	amod
7	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	off	off	ADV	_	7 way	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 dark	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 dark	cc
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 growing	mark
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 growing	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 growing	aux
14	growing	grow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 dark	advcl
15	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 way	parataxis
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 feeling	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 feeling	cc
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 feeling	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 feeling	aux
20	feeling	feel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 dark	conj
21	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 feeling	xcomp
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 stopped	punct
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 stopped	nsubj
24	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 dark	parataxis
25	to	to	PART	_	26 rest	mark
26	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 stopped	xcomp
27	at	at	ADP	_	31 house	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 cousin	nmod:poss
29	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 house	nmod:poss
30	’s	's	PART	_	29 cousin	case
31	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 rest	obl
32	by	by	ADP	_	34 way	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 way	det
34	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 rest	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 way	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	crane's home	a good long way		off property	tree rules
2	grow	past · progressive	home				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	feel	past · progressive	crane			tired property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
4	stop	past	crane				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
5	rest	to-infinitive	crane not said here		crane's cousin's house	by the way	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at house=Location

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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