The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 5, sentence 18
However, he sat down as usual under the bridge, and this time he sighed from the bottom of his heart.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: sit down, sigh · To what, where: bridge, bottom
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince), 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 4 sat | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sat | nsubj |
| 4 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | down | down | ADP | _ | 4 sat | compound:prt |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 usual | case |
| 7 | usual | usual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 sat | obl |
| 8 | under | under | ADP | _ | 10 bridge | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 bridge | det |
| 10 | bridge | bridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sat | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 sighed | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 sighed | cc |
| 13 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 time | det |
| 14 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sighed | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 sighed | nsubj |
| 16 | sighed | sigh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sat | conj |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 bottom | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 bottom | det |
| 19 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sighed | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 heart | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 heart | nmod:poss |
| 22 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 bottom | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit down | past | Prince | the bridge | as usual; however property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under bridge=Location | |||
| 2 | sigh | past | Prince | the bottom of Prince's heart | time | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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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