English Fairy Tales, Whittington and His Cat, sentence 17

After this he found himself as badly off as before; and being almost starved again, he laid himself down at the door of Mr. Fitzwarren, a rich merchant.

Who acts: Dick · What happens: find, starve, lay down · To what, where: Dick, door

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Whittington and His Cat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dick), 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	After	after	ADP	_	2 this	case
2	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 found	obl
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 found	nsubj
4	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 found	obj
6	as	as	ADV	_	7 badly	advmod
7	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 off	advmod
8	off	off	ADV	_	4 found	advmod
9	as	as	ADP	_	10 before	case
10	before	before	ADV	_	8 off	obl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 starved	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 starved	cc
13	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 starved	aux:pass
14	almost	almost	ADV	_	15 starved	advmod
15	starved	starve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 found	conj
16	again	again	ADV	_	15 starved	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 laid	punct
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 laid	nsubj
19	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 found	conj
20	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	19 laid	obj
21	down	down	ADP	_	19 laid	compound:prt
22	at	at	ADP	_	24 door	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 door	det
24	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 laid	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 Fitzwarren	case
26	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 Fitzwarren	nmod:desc
27	Fitzwarren	Fitzwarren	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 door	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 merchant	punct
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 merchant	det
30	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 merchant	amod
31	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 Fitzwarren	appos
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past	Dick	Dick		after this	off property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic
2	starve	gerund · passive	Dick not said here			again	almost property	tree rules
3	lay down	past	Dick	Dick	the door of Fitzwarren Mr.			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent himself=Theme at door=Destination

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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