The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 126

And the porter approached the bed, which was in a corner of the room, and saw the stiff form lying underneath.

Who acts: porter, bed, stiff form · What happens: approach, be, see, lie · To what, where: bed, corner, stiff form

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (porter, bed, stiff form), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 approached	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 porter	det
3	porter	porter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 approached	nsubj
4	approached	approach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bed	det
6	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 approached	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 corner	punct
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 corner	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 corner	cop
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 corner	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 corner	det
12	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bed	conj
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 room	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 room	det
15	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 corner	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 saw	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 saw	cc
18	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 approached	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 form	det
20	stiff	stiff	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 form	amod
21	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 saw	obj
22	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 form	acl
23	underneath	underneath	ADV	_	22 lying	advmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 approached	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	approach	past	the porter	the bed and a corner			vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bed=Theme
2	is	past	the bed and a corner		a corner	of the room	tree rules
3	see	past	the porter not said here	the stiff form			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer form=Stimulus
4	lie	gerund	the stiff form not said here			underneath property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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