The Green Fairy Book, The Crystal Coffin, sentence 33

On reaching firm ground he found himself in a hall of much the same size as the upper one, but with much more in it to wonder at and admire.

Who acts: tailor, size · What happens: reach, find, wonder, admire · To what, where: tailor, reaching firm ground

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crystal Coffin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tailor, size), 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	On	on	ADP	_	4 ground	case
2	reaching	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 ground	amod
3	firm	firm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 ground	amod
4	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 found	obl
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 found	nsubj
6	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 found	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 hall	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 hall	det
10	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 found	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	15 size	case
12	much	much	ADV	_	15 size	advmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 size	det
14	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 size	amod
15	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hall	nmod
16	as	as	ADP	_	19 one	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 one	det
18	upper	upper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 one	amod
19	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 size	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 more	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 more	cc
22	with	with	ADP	_	24 more	case
23	much	much	ADV	_	24 more	advmod
24	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 found	obj
25	in	in	SCONJ	_	28 wonder	mark
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 wonder	nsubj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 wonder	mark
28	wonder	wonder	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 more	advcl
29	at	at	ADP	_	28 wonder	obl
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 admire	cc
31	admire	admire	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 wonder	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	reach	gerund					vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	find	past	tailor	tailor	reaching firm ground	in a hall of the same size as the upper one	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent himself=Theme more=Attribute
3	wonder speech: ask	to-infinitive	size				vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	admire	infinitive	size not said here				vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer

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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