The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 36, sentence 32

She was already up and dressed, and sitting by the window knitting, and the young man crept in softly and crouched down on the floor, laying his head on her lap.

Who acts: young man · What happens: dress, sit, creep, crouch down, lay · To what, where: Sodno, floor, head, lap

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 dressed	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 dressed	aux:pass
3	already	already	ADV	_	4 up	advmod
4	up	up	ADV	_	6 dressed	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 dressed	cc
6	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 crept	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 crept	cc
9	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 crept	csubj
10	by	by	ADP	_	13 knitting	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 knitting	det
12	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 knitting	compound
13	knitting	knitting	NOUN	_	9 sitting	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 crept	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 crept	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 man	det
17	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 man	amod
18	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 crept	nsubj
19	crept	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 dressed	conj
20	in	in	ADP	_	21 softly	case
21	softly	softly	ADV	_	19 crept	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 crouched	cc
23	crouched	crouch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 crept	conj
24	down	down	ADP	_	23 crouched	compound:prt
25	on	on	ADP	_	27 floor	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 floor	det
27	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 crouched	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 laying	punct
29	laying	lay	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 crouched	advcl
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 head	nmod:poss
31	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 laying	obj
32	on	on	ADP	_	34 lap	case
33	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 lap	nmod:poss
34	lap	lap	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 laying	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 dressed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	dress	past · passive		Sodno			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	sit	gerund				by the window knitting	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by knitting=Location
3	creep	past	the young man				vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in softly=Trajectory
4	crouch down	participle	the young man not said here		the floor		vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on floor=Location
5	lay	gerund	the young man not said here	man's head	Sodno's lap		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme on lap=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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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