The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 73
“The thing which lay on the top of the bed” turned out to be the lost princess.
Who acts: thing · What happens: lie, turn out, lose, be · To what, where: top, thing, lost princess
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 (thing), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 turned | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 thing | det |
| 3 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 turned | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 lay | nsubj |
| 5 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thing | acl:relcl |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 top | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 top | det |
| 8 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lay | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 bed | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 bed | det |
| 11 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 top | nmod |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 turned | punct |
| 13 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 turned | compound:prt |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 princess | mark |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 princess | cop |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 princess | det |
| 18 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 princess | amod |
| 19 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 turned | advcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie in a quote | past | the thing | the top of the bed | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on top=Location | ||||
| 2 | turn out | participle · passive | the thing | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | lose | participle | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | is a | to-infinitive | the lost princess | tree rules |
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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