The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 12
He could not be prevailed on to leave the sick bed, and he was bending over it when the holy man entered the room.
Who acts: son, holy man · What happens: not prevail on, leave, bend, enter · To what, where: son, sick bed, bed, room
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, holy man), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 prevailed | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 prevailed | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 prevailed | advmod |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 prevailed | aux:pass |
| 5 | prevailed | prevail | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 prevailed | compound:prt |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 leave | mark |
| 8 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 prevailed | advcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 bed | det |
| 10 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 bed | amod |
| 11 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 leave | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 bending | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 bending | cc |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 bending | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 bending | aux |
| 16 | bending | bend | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 leave | advcl |
| 17 | over | over | ADP | _ | 18 it | case |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 bending | obl |
| 19 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 entered | advmod |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 man | det |
| 21 | holy | holy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 man | amod |
| 22 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 entered | nsubj |
| 23 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 bending | advcl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 room | det |
| 25 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 entered | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 prevailed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not prevail on | could · passive | son | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | leave | to-infinitive | the sick bed | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bed=Theme | |||||
| 3 | bend | past · progressive | son | bed | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over it=Location | ||||
| 4 | enter | past | the holy man | the room | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme room=Destination |
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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