The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 46

Before long he came to an apartment in which a beautiful princess lay asleep in a bed, and on a table by her side there lay a gold-hemmed handkerchief.

Who acts: Niels, beautiful princess · What happens: come, lie, hem · To what, where: apartment, hemmed handkerchief, table

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Niels, beautiful princess), 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	Before	before	ADP	_	2 long	case
2	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 came	obl
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 apartment	case
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 apartment	det
7	apartment	apartment	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 which	case
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 lay	obl
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 princess	det
11	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 princess	amod
12	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lay	nsubj
13	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 apartment	acl:relcl
14	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 lay	xcomp
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 bed	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 bed	det
17	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lay	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 lay	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 lay	cc
20	on	on	ADP	_	22 table	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 table	det
22	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 lay	obl
23	by	by	ADP	_	25 side	case
24	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 side	nmod:poss
25	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 table	nmod
26	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	25 side	advmod
27	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 handkerchief	det
29	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 hemmed	compound
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 gold	punct
31	hemmed	hem	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 handkerchief	amod
32	handkerchief	handkerchief	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 lay	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	Niels		a apartment		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to apartment=Initial_Location
2	lie	past	a beautiful princess		a apartment	in a bed; asleep property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in which=Location
3	lie	past	Niels not said here	a hemmed handkerchief	a table by princess's side		vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location handkerchief=Theme
4	hem	participle					vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «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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