The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 64

The old men warned him that he must ask her for the chest which stood at the foot of her bed, for whatever lay on the top of the bed, and for what lay under the side of the cave.

Who acts: old men, man, chest, whatever · What happens: warn, ask, stand, lie · To what, where: Litill, friend, foot, top, side · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old men, man, chest, whatever), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 men	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 men	amod
3	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 warned	nsubj
4	warned	warn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 warned	obj
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 ask	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 ask	nsubj
8	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 ask	aux
9	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 warned	ccomp
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 ask	iobj
11	for	for	ADP	_	13 chest	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 chest	det
13	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ask	obl
14	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 stood	nsubj
15	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 chest	acl:relcl
16	at	at	ADP	_	18 foot	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 foot	det
18	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 stood	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 bed	case
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 bed	nmod:poss
21	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 foot	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 lay	punct
23	for	for	SCONJ	_	25 lay	mark
24	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 lay	nsubj
25	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 warned	conj
26	on	on	ADP	_	28 top	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 top	det
28	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 lay	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 bed	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 bed	det
31	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 top	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 lay	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 lay	cc
34	for	for	SCONJ	_	36 lay	mark
35	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	36 lay	nsubj
36	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 lay	advcl
37	under	under	ADP	_	39 side	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 side	det
39	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 lay	obl
40	of	of	ADP	_	42 cave	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 cave	det
42	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 side	nmod
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 warned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	warn speech: warn	past	the old men	Litill			vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	ask speech: ask	must	man	friend		for the chest	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
3	stand	past	the chest		the foot of friend's bed		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at foot=Location
4	lie	past	whatever		the top of the bed		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on top=Location
5	lie	past			the side of the cave		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under side=Location

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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