The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1, sentence 71

Almost in despair she reached the last box of all, which was occupied by her father’s ancient war-horse, old and worn like himself, stretched sadly out on the straw.

Who acts: despair, ancient war horse · What happens: reach, occupy, wear, stretch · To what, where: last box, straw

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, 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 (despair, ancient war horse), 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	Almost	almost	ADV	_	3 despair	advmod
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 despair	case
3	despair	despair	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 reached	nsubj
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 reached	nsubj
5	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 box	det
7	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 box	amod
8	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 reached	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 all	case
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 box	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 occupied	punct
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 occupied	nsubj:pass
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 occupied	aux:pass
14	occupied	occupy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 box	acl
15	by	by	ADP	_	22 horse	case
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 father	nmod:poss
17	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 horse	nmod:poss
18	’s	's	PART	_	17 father	case
19	ancient	ancient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 horse	amod
20	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 horse	compound
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 war	punct
22	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 occupied	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 old	punct
24	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 horse	amod
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 worn	cc
26	worn	wear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 old	conj
27	like	like	ADP	_	28 himself	case
28	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	26 worn	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 stretched	punct
30	stretched	stretch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 reached	conj
31	sadly	sadly	ADV	_	32 out	advmod
32	out	out	ADV	_	30 stretched	advmod
33	on	on	ADP	_	35 straw	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 straw	det
35	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 stretched	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 reached	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	reach	past	despair	the last box of all			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent box=Theme
2	occupy	past · passive	despair's father's ancient war horse	the last box of all			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer
3	wear	participle	despair's father's ancient war horse not said here			like father	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent
4	stretch	past	despair not said here		the straw	out property	vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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