The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 5
And he laid himself on the bed, and held his breath when the chamberlain came in.
Who acts: Abu, chamberlain · What happens: lay, hold, come in · To what, where: Abu, bed, breath
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Abu, chamberlain), 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 | _ | 3 laid | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 laid | nsubj |
| 3 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 laid | obj |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 bed | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bed | det |
| 7 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 laid | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 held | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 held | cc |
| 10 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 laid | conj |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 breath | nmod:poss |
| 12 | breath | breath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 held | obj |
| 13 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 16 came | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 chamberlain | det |
| 15 | chamberlain | chamberlain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 came | nsubj |
| 16 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 held | advcl |
| 17 | in | in | ADV | _ | 16 came | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 laid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay | past | Abu | Abu | the bed | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent himself=Theme on bed=Destination | |||
| 2 | hold | past | Abu not said here | Abu's breath | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breath=Theme | ||||
| 3 | come in | past | the chamberlain | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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