The Green Fairy Book, The Crystal Coffin, sentence 5

He could have made himself quite comfortable with a bed of soft moss, but the fear of wild beasts disturbed his mind, and at last he determined to spend the night in a tree.

Who acts: tailor, fear · What happens: make, disturb, determine, spend, fear, mind · To what, where: tailor, mind, last, tree, wild beasts

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, fear), 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	4 made	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 made	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 made	aux
4	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 made	obj
6	quite	quite	ADV	_	7 comfortable	advmod
7	comfortable	comfortable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 made	xcomp
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 bed	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 bed	det
10	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 moss	case
12	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 moss	amod
13	moss	moss	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bed	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 disturbed	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 disturbed	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 fear	det
17	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 disturbed	nsubj
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 beasts	case
19	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 beasts	amod
20	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 fear	nmod
21	disturbed	disturb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 made	parataxis
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 mind	nmod:poss
23	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 disturbed	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 determined	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 determined	cc
26	at	at	ADP	_	27 last	case
27	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 determined	obl
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 determined	nsubj
29	determined	determine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 disturbed	conj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 spend	mark
31	spend	spend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 determined	xcomp
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 night	det
33	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 spend	obj
34	in	in	ADP	_	36 tree	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 tree	det
36	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 spend	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	could · perfect	tailor	tailor			with a bed of soft moss; comfortable property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Product
2	disturb	past	the fear of wild beasts	tailor's mind				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus mind=Experiencer
3	determine	past	tailor		last			vn discover-84 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	spend	to-infinitive	tailor not said here		a tree	night		vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	fear			wild beasts				nom fear «feeling transitive»: of=patient
6	mind		tailor					nom mind «cognition 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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