English Fairy Tales, The History of Tom Thumb, sentence 2

This famous magician, who could take any form he pleased, was travelling about as a poor beggar, and being very tired, he stopped at the cottage of a ploughman to rest himself, and asked for some food.

Who acts: famous magician, magician · What happens: take, travel, be, stop, rest, ask · To what, where: form, cottage, magician

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The History of Tom Thumb. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (famous magician, magician), 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	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 magician	det
2	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 magician	amod
3	magician	magician	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 travelling	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 take	punct
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 take	nsubj
6	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 take	aux
7	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 magician	acl:relcl
8	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	9 form	det
9	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 take	obj
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 pleased	nsubj
11	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 take	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 magician	punct
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 travelling	aux
14	travelling	travel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
15	about	about	ADV	_	14 travelling	advmod
16	as	as	ADP	_	19 beggar	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 beggar	det
18	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 beggar	amod
19	beggar	beggar	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 travelling	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 tired	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 tired	cc
22	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 tired	cop
23	very	very	ADV	_	24 tired	advmod
24	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 travelling	parataxis
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 stopped	punct
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 stopped	nsubj
27	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 tired	parataxis
28	at	at	ADP	_	30 cottage	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 cottage	det
30	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 stopped	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 ploughman	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 ploughman	det
33	ploughman	ploughman	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 cottage	nmod
34	to	to	PART	_	35 rest	mark
35	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 stopped	advcl
36	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	35 rest	obj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 asked	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 asked	cc
39	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 stopped	conj
40	for	for	ADP	_	42 food	case
41	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	42 food	det
42	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 asked	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 travelling	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	could	this famous magician	any form			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent form=Theme
2	travel	past · progressive	this famous magician			as a poor beggar; about property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	gerund				tired property	tree rules
4	stop	past	magician		the cottage of a ploughman		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at cottage=Location
5	rest	to-infinitive	magician not said here	magician			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location himself=Theme
6	ask speech: ask	past	magician not said here			for some food	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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