The Violet Fairy Book, The Underground Workers, sentence 3
Here he resolved to spend the night, thinking that when the sun rose he would be able to see his path again.
Who acts: man, sun · What happens: resolve, spend, think, rise, be, see · To what, where: path
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Underground Workers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, sun), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 resolved | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 resolved | nsubj |
| 3 | resolved | resolve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 spend | mark |
| 5 | spend | spend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 resolved | xcomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 night | det |
| 7 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 spend | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 thinking | punct |
| 9 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 spend | advcl |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 rose | mark |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 rose | advmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 sun | det |
| 13 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 rose | nsubj |
| 14 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 thinking | advcl |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 able | nsubj |
| 16 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 able | aux |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 able | cop |
| 18 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 rose | ccomp |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 see | mark |
| 20 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 able | xcomp |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 path | nmod:poss |
| 22 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 see | obj |
| 23 | again | again | ADV | _ | 20 see | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 resolved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | resolve | past | man | here | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | spend | to-infinitive | man not said here | night | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | gerund | man not said here | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | rise | past | the sun | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is | would | man | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | see | to-infinitive | man not said here | man's path | again | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer path=Stimulus |
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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