The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 4, sentence 81

Before crossing the bridge he sat down on the banks of the stream and sighed dismally over his sad fate.

Who acts: bridge · What happens: cross, sit down, sigh, fate · To what, where: bridge, banks, sad fate

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bridge), 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	Before	before	SCONJ	_	2 crossing	mark
2	crossing	cross	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 sat	advcl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bridge	det
4	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 crossing	obj
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sat	nsubj
6	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	down	down	ADP	_	6 sat	compound:prt
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 banks	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 banks	det
10	banks	bank	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 sat	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 stream	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 stream	det
13	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 banks	nmod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 sighed	cc
15	sighed	sigh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sat	conj
16	dismally	dismally	ADV	_	15 sighed	advmod
17	over	over	ADP	_	20 fate	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 fate	nmod:poss
19	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 fate	amod
20	fate	fate	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 sighed	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	cross	gerund	bridge not said here	the bridge			vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bridge=Patient
2	sit down	past	bridge		the banks of the stream		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bank=Location
3	sigh	past	bridge not said here		bridge's sad fate	dismally property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	fate		bridge				nom fate «event transitive»: 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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