The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 71

Early next morning the gold-bearded man came down to the brook, ate, drank, and fell sound asleep, so that the watchers easily bound him, and carried him off to the palace.

Who acts: bearded man, watchers · What happens: come down, eat, drink, fall, bound, carry off · To what, where: brook, man, palace

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bearded man, watchers), 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	Early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 came	advmod
2	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 morning	amod
3	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 came	obl:unmarked
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 man	det
5	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bearded	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 gold	punct
7	bearded	bearded	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 man	amod
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 came	nsubj
9	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	down	down	ADV	_	9 came	advmod
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 brook	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 brook	det
13	brook	brook	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 came	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 ate	punct
15	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 came	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 drank	punct
17	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 ate	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 fell	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 fell	cc
20	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 came	conj
21	sound	sound	ADV	_	22 asleep	advmod
22	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 fell	xcomp
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 bound	punct
24	so	so	ADV	_	29 bound	advmod
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 bound	mark
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 watchers	det
27	watchers	watcher	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 bound	nsubj
28	easily	easily	ADV	_	27 watchers	advmod
29	bound	bound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 came	conj
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 bound	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 carried	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 carried	cc
33	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 came	conj
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 carried	obj
35	off	off	ADP	_	33 carried	compound:prt
36	to	to	ADP	_	38 palace	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 palace	det
38	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 carried	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come down	past	the bearded man		the brook	morning	down, early property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to brook=Initial_Location
2	eat	past	the bearded man not said here					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	drink	past	the bearded man not said here					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	fall	past	the bearded man not said here				asleep property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	bound	present	the watchers	man				vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location he=Theme
6	carry off	past	the bearded man not said here	man	the palace			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to palace=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: «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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