The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 105

She lost no time in calling her husband, who was still lying in bed.

Who acts: path, husband · What happens: lose, call, lie · To what, where: husband, bed · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (path, husband), 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	2 lost	nsubj
2	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 time	det
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lost	obj
5	in	in	SCONJ	_	6 calling	mark
6	calling	call	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 lost	advcl
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 husband	nmod:poss
8	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 calling	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 lying	punct
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 lying	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 lying	aux
12	still	still	ADV	_	13 lying	advmod
13	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 husband	conj
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 bed	case
15	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lying	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 lost	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	lose	past	path			time	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	call	gerund	path not said here	path's husband			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent husband=Recipient
3	lie	past · progressive	path's husband		bed	still	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in bed=Location

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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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