Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 176

But he lay there, and moved never a limb.

Who acts: SEA · What happens: lie, move · To what, where: limb

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Vampire and St Michael. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (SEA), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 lay	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 lay	nsubj
3	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 lay	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 moved	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 moved	cc
7	moved	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lay	conj
8	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	10 limb	advmod
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 limb	det
10	limb	limb	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 moved	obj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	past	SEA			there			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	move	past	SEA not said here	a limb					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent limb=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: «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (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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