The Green Fairy Book, The White Snake, sentence 15
In his agitation and distress, he went down to the yard to think over what he could do in this trouble.
Who acts: King · What happens: go down, think, do · To what, where: trouble · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Snake. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 agitation | case |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 agitation | nmod:poss |
| 3 | agitation | agitation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 went | obl |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 distress | cc |
| 5 | distress | distress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 agitation | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 agitation | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 went | nsubj |
| 8 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | down | down | ADV | _ | 8 went | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 yard | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 yard | det |
| 12 | yard | yard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 went | obl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 think | mark |
| 14 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 went | advcl |
| 15 | over | over | SCONJ | _ | 19 do | mark |
| 16 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 19 do | obj |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 do | nsubj |
| 18 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 do | aux |
| 19 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 think | ccomp |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 trouble | case |
| 21 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 trouble | det |
| 22 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 do | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go down | past | King | to the yard; in King's agitation and distress; down property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in agitation=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | to-infinitive | King not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | do | could | King | this trouble | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
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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