Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story-teller At Fault, sentence 5

But this morning he found himself quite at fault; after pacing his whole demesne, he returned to his house without being able to think of anything new or strange.

Who acts: teller · What happens: find, pace, return, be, think · To what, where: teller, whole demesne

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Story-teller At Fault. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (teller), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 found	cc
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 morning	det
3	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 found	obl:unmarked
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 found	nsubj
5	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 found	obj
7	quite	quite	ADV	_	9 fault	advmod
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 fault	case
9	fault	fault	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 found	ccomp
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 pacing	punct
11	after	after	SCONJ	_	12 pacing	mark
12	pacing	pace	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 found	advcl
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 demesne	nmod:poss
14	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 demesne	amod
15	demesne	demesne	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 pacing	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 returned	punct
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 returned	nsubj
18	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 found	conj
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 house	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 house	nmod:poss
21	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 returned	obl
22	without	without	SCONJ	_	24 able	mark
23	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 able	cop
24	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 returned	advcl
25	to	to	PART	_	26 think	mark
26	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 able	xcomp
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 anything	case
28	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	26 think	obl
29	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 anything	amod
30	or	or	CCONJ	_	31 strange	cc
31	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 new	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	find	past	teller	teller	morning		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic
2	pace	gerund	teller not said here	teller's whole demesne			vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location demesne=Theme
3	return	past	teller			to teller's house result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to house=Result
4	is	gerund	teller not said here			able property	tree rules
5	think speech: other	to-infinitive	teller not said here			of anything	vn focus-87.1-1 «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: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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