The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 7

“My husband is dead,” answered she, pointing to the bed; and the chamberlain drew back the sheet and beheld Abu Nowas lying stiff and motionless.

Who acts: husband, chamberlain · What happens: be, answer, point, draw back, behold, lie · To what, where: wife, bed, sheet, Abu · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (husband, 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	5 dead	punct
2	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 husband	nmod:poss
3	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dead	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 dead	cop
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 answered	ccomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 dead	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 dead	punct
8	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 answered	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 pointing	punct
11	pointing	point	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 answered	advcl
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 bed	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 bed	det
14	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 pointing	obl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 drew	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 drew	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 chamberlain	det
18	chamberlain	chamberlain	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 drew	nsubj
19	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 answered	parataxis
20	back	back	ADV	_	19 drew	advmod
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 sheet	det
22	sheet	sheet	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 drew	obj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 beheld	cc
24	beheld	behold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 drew	conj
25	Abu	Abu	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 beheld	obj
26	Nowas	Nowas	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 Abu	flat
27	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 beheld	advcl
28	stiff	stiff	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 lying	xcomp
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 motionless	cc
30	motionless	motionless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 stiff	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	My husband			dead property	tree rules
2	answer speech: assert	past			wife		vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent she=Eventuality
3	point	gerund			the bed		vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to bed=Recipient
4	draw back	past	the chamberlain	the sheet			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheet=Theme
5	behold	past	the chamberlain not said here	Abu			vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer abu=Stimulus
6	lie	gerund	the chamberlain not said here			stiff 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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