The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 78

Without waking her husband, she glided out of bed, and taking up a heavy bowl of milk which stood on a table, laid it on the floor in the path of the serpent—for she knew that no serpent in the world can resist milk.

Who acts: princess, heavy bowl, serpent · What happens: wake, glide, take up, stand, lay, know · To what, where: husband, bed, heavy bowl, table, bowl, floor · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, heavy bowl, serpent), 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	Without	without	SCONJ	_	2 waking	mark
2	waking	wake	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 glided	advcl
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 husband	nmod:poss
4	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 waking	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 waking	punct
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 glided	nsubj
7	glided	glide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	out	out	ADP	_	10 bed	case
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 bed	case
10	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 glided	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 taking	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 taking	cc
13	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 glided	advcl
14	up	up	ADP	_	13 taking	compound:prt
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 bowl	det
16	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 bowl	amod
17	bowl	bowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 taking	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 milk	case
19	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 bowl	nmod
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 stood	nsubj
21	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 bowl	acl:relcl
22	on	on	ADP	_	24 table	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 table	det
24	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 stood	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 laid	punct
26	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 glided	conj
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 laid	obj
28	on	on	ADP	_	30 floor	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 floor	det
30	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 laid	obl
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 path	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 path	det
33	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 laid	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 serpent	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 serpent	det
36	serpent	serpent	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 path	nmod
37	—	-	PUNCT	_	40 knew	punct
38	for	for	SCONJ	_	40 knew	mark
39	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 knew	nsubj
40	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 glided	parataxis
41	that	that	SCONJ	_	48 resist	mark
42	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	43 serpent	det
43	serpent	serpent	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 resist	nsubj
44	in	in	ADP	_	46 world	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 world	det
46	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 serpent	nmod
47	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	48 resist	aux
48	resist	resist	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 knew	ccomp
49	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 resist	obj
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 glided	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	wake	gerund	princess not said here	princess's husband			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent husband=Patient
2	glide	past	princess		bed		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out bed=Trajectory
3	take up	gerund	princess not said here	a heavy bowl of milk			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bowl=Theme
4	stand	past	a heavy bowl of milk		a table		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on table=Location
5	lay	past	princess not said here	bowl	the floor	in the path of the serpent	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme on floor=Destination
6	know	past	princess				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
7	resist	can	no serpent in the world	milk			tree rules

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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