The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Hok Lee and the Dwarfs, sentence 60

He waited a month till the first night of the full moon came round again, and then he trudged back to the forest, and sat down under the tree from which he had fallen.

Who acts: doctor, first night · What happens: wait, come round, trudge back, sit down, fall · To what, where: forest, tree

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Hok Lee and the Dwarfs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (doctor, first night), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 waited	nsubj
2	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 month	det
4	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 waited	obl:unmarked
5	till	till	SCONJ	_	13 came	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 night	det
7	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 night	amod
8	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 came	nsubj
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 moon	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 moon	det
11	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 moon	amod
12	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 night	nmod
13	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 waited	advcl
14	round	round	ADV	_	13 came	advmod
15	again	again	ADV	_	13 came	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 trudged	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 trudged	cc
18	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 trudged	advmod
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 trudged	nsubj
20	trudged	trudge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 waited	parataxis
21	back	back	ADV	_	20 trudged	advmod
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 forest	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 forest	det
24	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 trudged	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 sat	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 sat	cc
27	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 waited	conj
28	down	down	ADP	_	27 sat	compound:prt
29	under	under	ADP	_	31 tree	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 tree	det
31	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 sat	obl
32	from	from	ADP	_	33 which	case
33	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 fallen	obl
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 fallen	nsubj
35	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 fallen	aux
36	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	31 tree	acl:relcl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 waited	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	past	doctor		month		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come round	past	the first night of the full moon		again	round property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	trudge back	past	doctor	the forest	then		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to forest=Destination
4	sit down	past	doctor not said here	the tree			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under tree=Location
5	fall	past · perfect	doctor	the tree			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from which=Initial_Location

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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