The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 2, sentence 19

But when he had satisfied his thirst, and wished to raise himself up, he couldn’t lift his head, because someone held his beard fast in the water.

Who acts: thirst, someone · What happens: satisfy, wish, raise up, not lift, hold, thirst · To what, where: thirst, head, beard, water

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thirst, someone), 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 satisfied	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 satisfied	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 satisfied	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 satisfied	aux
5	satisfied	satisfy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 thirst	nmod:poss
7	thirst	thirst	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 satisfied	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 wished	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 wished	cc
10	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 satisfied	conj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 raise	mark
12	raise	raise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 wished	xcomp
13	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	12 raise	obj
14	up	up	ADP	_	12 raise	compound:prt
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 lift	punct
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 lift	nsubj
17	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 lift	aux
18	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 lift	advmod
19	lift	lift	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 raise	conj
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 head	nmod:poss
21	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 lift	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 held	punct
23	because	because	SCONJ	_	25 held	mark
24	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	25 held	nsubj
25	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 wished	advcl
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 beard	nmod:poss
27	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 held	obj
28	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	25 held	advmod
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 water	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 water	det
31	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 held	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 satisfied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	satisfy	past · perfect	thirst	thirst's thirst			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus thirst=Experiencer
2	wish	past	thirst not said here				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	raise up not said to happen	to-infinitive	thirst not said here	thirst			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme
4	not lift	could	thirst	thirst's head			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme
5	hold	past	someone	thirst's beard	the water	fast property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent beard=Theme in water=Location
6	thirst		thirst				nom thirst «state intransitive»: poss=agent

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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