The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 2, sentence 87
Sadly he returned to his room, and with bent head sat brooding over his cruel fate till evening.
Who acts: monster · What happens: return, sit, brood, fate · To what, where: cruel fate
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 (monster), 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 | Sadly | sadly | ADV | _ | 3 returned | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 returned | nsubj |
| 3 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 room | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 room | nmod:poss |
| 6 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 returned | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sat | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 sat | cc |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 head | case |
| 10 | bent | bent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 head | amod |
| 11 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sat | obl |
| 12 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 returned | conj |
| 13 | brooding | brood | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 sat | advcl |
| 14 | over | over | ADP | _ | 17 fate | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 fate | nmod:poss |
| 16 | cruel | cruel | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 fate | amod |
| 17 | fate | fate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 brooding | obl |
| 18 | till | till | ADP | _ | 19 evening | case |
| 19 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fate | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | monster | to monster's room result; sadly property | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to room=Result | ||||
| 2 | sit | past | monster not said here | with bent head | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | brood | gerund | monster not said here | monster's cruel fate till evening | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | fate | monster | till evening | nom fate «event transitive»: poss=agent till=obl |
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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