The Green Fairy Book, The White Snake, sentence 51

The youth sat down in the garden and wondered how it would be possible for him to accomplish such a task, but he could think of no expedient, and sat there sadly expecting to meet his death at daybreak.

Who acts: youth, it · What happens: sit down, wonder, be, accomplish, think, sit · To what, where: garden, task, death, daybreak · 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 (youth, it), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 youth	det
2	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sat	nsubj
3	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	down	down	ADP	_	3 sat	compound:prt
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 garden	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 garden	det
7	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sat	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 wondered	cc
9	wondered	wonder	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	conj
10	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	14 possible	advmod
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 possible	nsubj
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 possible	aux
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 possible	cop
14	possible	possible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 wondered	ccomp
15	for	for	SCONJ	_	18 accomplish	mark
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 accomplish	nsubj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 accomplish	mark
18	accomplish	accomplish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 possible	csubj
19	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	21 task	det:predet
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 task	det
21	task	task	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 accomplish	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 think	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 think	cc
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 think	nsubj
25	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 think	aux
26	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 sat	advcl
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 expedient	case
28	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	29 expedient	det
29	expedient	expedient	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 think	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 sat	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 sat	cc
32	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	conj
33	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	32 sat	advmod
34	sadly	sadly	ADV	_	32 sat	advmod
35	expecting	expect	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	32 sat	advcl
36	to	to	PART	_	37 meet	mark
37	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 expecting	xcomp
38	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 death	nmod:poss
39	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 meet	obj
40	at	at	ADP	_	41 daybreak	case
41	daybreak	daybreak	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 meet	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit down	past	the youth		the garden		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in garden=Location
2	wonder speech: ask	past	the youth not said here				vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	would	it			possible property	tree rules
4	accomplish	to-infinitive	youth	such task			vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent task=Eventuality
5	think speech: other	could	youth			of no expedient	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	sit	past	the youth not said here		there	sadly property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	expect	gerund	the youth not said here				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
8	meet not said to happen	to-infinitive	the youth not said here	youth's death	daybreak		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent death=Co-Agent
9	die		youth				nom death «event intransitive»: 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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