The Green Fairy Book, The Magic Swan, sentence 9

But he felt very bitterly parting from the home where he had been born, and where he had at least passed a short but happy childhood, and sitting down on a hill he gazed once more fondly on his native place.

Who acts: Peter · What happens: feel, bear, have, pass, sit down, gaze · To what, where: bitterly parting, home, Peter, short childhood, least, hill

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Swan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Peter), 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	_	3 felt	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 felt	nsubj
3	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 bitterly	advmod
5	bitterly	bitterly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 parting	amod
6	parting	parting	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 felt	obj
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 home	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 home	det
9	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 felt	obl
10	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	14 born	advmod
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 born	nsubj:pass
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 born	aux
13	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 born	aux:pass
14	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 home	acl:relcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 passed	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 passed	cc
17	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	19 had	advmod
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 had	nsubj
19	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 passed	advcl
20	at	at	ADP	_	21 least	case
21	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	22 passed	obl
22	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 felt	parataxis
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 childhood	det
24	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 childhood	amod
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 happy	cc
26	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 short	conj
27	childhood	childhood	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 passed	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 gazed	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 gazed	cc
30	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	36 gazed	csubj
31	down	down	ADV	_	30 sitting	advmod
32	on	on	ADP	_	34 hill	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 hill	det
34	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 sitting	obl
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 gazed	nsubj
36	gazed	gaze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 passed	conj
37	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	38 more	advmod
38	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	39 fondly	advmod
39	fondly	fondly	ADV	_	36 gazed	advmod
40	on	on	ADP	_	43 place	case
41	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 place	nmod:poss
42	native	native	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 place	amod
43	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 gazed	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 felt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	feel	past	Peter	bitterly parting	the home		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent parting=Theme
2	bear	past · perfect · passive		Peter			vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	have	past	Peter				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	pass	past		a short childhood	least		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent childhood=Theme at least=Destination
5	sit down	gerund			a hill	down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on hill=Location
6	gaze	past	Peter			on Peter's native place; fondly property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on place=Theme

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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