The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 67

He lay weeping in the chamber which he was forbidden to leave, when suddenly he heard a sharp tapping at the window, and, looking up, he beheld a stork.

Who acts: king · What happens: lie, weep, forbid, leave, hear, look up · To what, where: chamber, sharp tapping, window, stork

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lay	nsubj
2	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	weeping	weep	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 lay	xcomp
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 chamber	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 chamber	det
6	chamber	chamber	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 weeping	obl
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 forbidden	nsubj:pass
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 forbidden	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 forbidden	aux:pass
10	forbidden	forbid	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 chamber	acl:relcl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 leave	mark
12	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 forbidden	xcomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 heard	punct
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 heard	advmod
15	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	17 heard	advmod
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 heard	nsubj
17	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 lay	conj
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 tapping	det
19	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 tapping	amod
20	tapping	tapping	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 heard	obj
21	at	at	ADP	_	23 window	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 window	det
23	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 heard	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 beheld	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 beheld	cc
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 looking	punct
27	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 beheld	advcl
28	up	up	ADP	_	27 looking	compound:prt
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 looking	punct
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 beheld	nsubj
31	beheld	behold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 lay	conj
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 stork	det
33	stork	stork	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 beheld	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lie	past	king				tree rules
2	weep	gerund	king not said here			in the chamber	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in chamber=Theme
3	forbid	past · passive		the chamber			tree rules
4	leave	to-infinitive					vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	hear	past	king	a sharp tapping	the window	suddenly property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer tapping=Stimulus
6	look up	gerund	king not said here				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
7	behold	past	king	a stork			vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer stork=Stimulus

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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