The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 99

But no boat was there, and at last, tired and hungry, he sat down to rest on the steps of a fisherman’s hut.

Who acts: boat, horse · What happens: be, sit down, rest, step · To what, where: hut

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boat, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 there	cc
2	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	3 boat	det
3	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 there	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 there	cop
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 sat	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 tired	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 tired	cc
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 last	case
9	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 tired	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 last	punct
11	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 there	parataxis
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 hungry	cc
13	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 tired	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 sat	punct
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 sat	nsubj
16	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	down	down	ADP	_	16 sat	compound:prt
18	to	to	PART	_	19 rest	mark
19	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 sat	advcl
20	on	on	ADP	_	22 steps	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 steps	det
22	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 rest	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	27 hut	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 fisherman	det
25	fisherman	fisherman	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 hut	nmod:poss
26	’s	's	PART	_	25 fisherman	case
27	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 steps	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	no boat		there property	tree rules
2	sit down	past	horse			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	rest	to-infinitive	horse not said here		on the steps of a fisherman's hut	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on step=Location
4	step			a fisherman's hut		nom step «act transitive»: of=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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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