The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 95

While he was absent the housekeeper went to the boy’s room and tried to wake him.

Who acts: magician, absent housekeeper · What happens: be, go, try, wake · To what, where: room, magician

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (magician, absent housekeeper), 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	While	while	SCONJ	_	4 absent	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 absent	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 absent	cop
4	absent	absent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 housekeeper	amod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 housekeeper	det
6	housekeeper	housekeeper	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 went	nsubj
7	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	ADP	_	12 room	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 boy	det
10	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 room	nmod:poss
11	’s	's	PART	_	10 boy	case
12	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 went	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 tried	cc
14	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 went	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 wake	mark
16	wake	wake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 tried	xcomp
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 wake	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	magician			absent property	tree rules
2	go	past	the absent housekeeper		the boy's room		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to room=Initial_Location
3	try	past	the absent housekeeper not said here				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	wake not said to happen	to-infinitive	the absent housekeeper not said here	magician			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient

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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