English Fairy Tales, Whittington and His Cat, sentence 8

Poor Dick ran till he was tired, and had quite forgot his friend the waggoner; but at last, finding it grow dark, and that every way he turned he saw nothing but dirt instead of gold, he, sat down in a dark corner and cried himself to sleep.

Who acts: Poor Dick, Dick, friend · What happens: run, be, have, forget, find, grow · To what, where: friend, last, way, dark corner, Dick

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 (Poor Dick, Dick, friend), 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	Poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Dick	amod
2	Dick	Dick	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 ran	nsubj
3	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	till	till	SCONJ	_	7 tired	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 tired	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 tired	cop
7	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 ran	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 had	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 had	cc
10	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 ran	conj
11	quite	quite	ADV	_	12 forgot	advmod
12	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 had	advcl
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 friend	nmod:poss
14	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 forgot	obj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 waggoner	det
16	waggoner	waggoner	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 forgot	obj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 finding	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 finding	cc
19	at	at	ADP	_	20 last	case
20	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 finding	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 last	punct
22	finding	find	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 ran	advcl
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 finding	obj
24	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 finding	xcomp
25	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 grow	xcomp
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 saw	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 saw	cc
28	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	30 way	det
29	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	30 way	det
30	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 saw	obl:unmarked
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 turned	nsubj
32	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 way	acl:relcl
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 saw	nsubj
34	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 ran	conj
35	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	34 saw	obj
36	but	but	CCONJ	_	37 dirt	cc
37	dirt	dirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 nothing	conj
38	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	40 gold	case
39	of	of	ADP	_	38 instead	fixed
40	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 nothing	nmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 sat	punct
42	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 sat	nsubj
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 he	punct
44	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 saw	parataxis
45	down	down	ADP	_	44 sat	compound:prt
46	in	in	ADP	_	49 corner	case
47	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	49 corner	det
48	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 corner	amod
49	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 sat	obl
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 cried	cc
51	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 sat	conj
52	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	51 cried	obj
53	to	to	PART	_	54 sleep	mark
54	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	51 cried	advcl
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 ran	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	run	past	Poor Dick				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	Dick			tired property	tree rules
3	have	past	Poor Dick not said here				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	forget	past	Poor Dick not said here	Dick's friend			tree rules
5	find	gerund	Poor Dick not said here	friend	last		vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Attribute clause=Theme
6	grow	infinitive	friend not said here			dark property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	turn	past	Dick	that way not said here			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent way=Theme
8	see	past	Dick	that way			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus
9	sit down	past	Dick		a dark corner		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in corner=Location
10	cry speech: express	past	Dick not said here	Dick			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic
11	sleep	to-infinitive	Dick not said here				vn snooze-40.4-1 «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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