The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 22

At midnight, while he was keeping watch and everyone else was sleeping, the man bade his friend Tiidu follow him on deck, where he tied a rope round Tiidu’s body, fastening the other end carefully to one of the ship’s ropes.

Who acts: Tiidu, watch, man, friend · What happens: keep, sleep, bade, follow, tie, fasten · To what, where: Tiidu, deck, rope, other end

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tiidu, watch, man, 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 midnight	case
2	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 keeping	punct
4	while	while	SCONJ	_	7 keeping	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 keeping	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 keeping	aux
7	keeping	keep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 midnight	parataxis
8	watch	watch	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sleeping	nsubj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 everyone	cc
10	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	8 watch	conj
11	else	else	ADV	_	10 everyone	advmod
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 sleeping	aux
13	sleeping	sleep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 keeping	ccomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 bade	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 man	det
16	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 bade	nsubj
17	bade	bade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 sleeping	conj
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 friend	nmod:poss
19	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 follow	nsubj
20	Tiidu	Tiidu	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 friend	appos
21	follow	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 bade	ccomp
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 follow	obj
23	on	on	ADP	_	24 deck	case
24	deck	deck	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 follow	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 tied	punct
26	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	28 tied	advmod
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 tied	nsubj
28	tied	tie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 follow	conj
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 rope	det
30	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 tied	obj
31	round	round	ADP	_	34 body	case
32	Tiidu	Tiidu	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 body	nmod:poss
33	’s	's	PART	_	32 Tiidu	case
34	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 tied	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 fastening	punct
36	fastening	fasten	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 tied	advcl
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 end	det
38	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 end	amod
39	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 fastening	obj
40	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	42 one	advmod
41	to	to	ADP	_	42 one	case
42	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	36 fastening	obj
43	of	of	ADP	_	47 ropes	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 ship	det
45	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 ropes	nmod:poss
46	’s	's	PART	_	45 ship	case
47	ropes	rope	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 one	nmod
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 midnight	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	keep	past · progressive	Tiidu				tree rules
2	sleep	past · progressive	watch				vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	bade	past	the man				tree rules
4	follow	present	Tiidu's friend	Tiidu	deck		vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme on deck=Trajectory
5	tie	past	Tiidu	a rope		round Tiidu's body	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rope=Patient
6	fasten	gerund	Tiidu not said here	the other end			vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP ADJP»: agent=Agent end=Patient one=Result

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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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