The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 57

A little nearer to the hearth lay the once frolicsome Beni, with all four feet stretched stiffly out, while the sleek cat seemed too weak to raise his head from his velvet cushion.

Who acts: sleek cat · What happens: lie, stretch, seem, raise · To what, where: frolicsome Beni, four feet, head, velvet cushion

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sleek cat), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 little	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 nearer	obl
3	nearer	near	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 lay	advmod
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 hearth	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 hearth	det
6	hearth	hearth	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lay	obl
7	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Beni	det
9	once	once	SCONJ	_	11 Beni	case
10	frolicsome	frolicsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 Beni	amod
11	Beni	Beni	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 lay	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 feet	punct
13	with	with	ADP	_	16 feet	case
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 feet	det
15	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 feet	nummod
16	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 lay	parataxis
17	stretched	stretch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 feet	acl
18	stiffly	stiffly	ADV	_	19 out	advmod
19	out	out	ADV	_	17 stretched	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 seemed	punct
21	while	while	SCONJ	_	25 seemed	mark
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 cat	det
23	sleek	sleek	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 cat	amod
24	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 seemed	nsubj
25	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 lay	advcl
26	too	too	ADV	_	27 weak	advmod
27	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 seemed	xcomp
28	to	to	PART	_	29 raise	mark
29	raise	raise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 weak	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 raise	obj
32	from	from	ADP	_	35 cushion	case
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 cushion	nmod:poss
34	velvet	velvet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 cushion	amod
35	cushion	cushion	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 raise	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lie	past		the frolicsome Beni		to the hearth	vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location beni=Theme
2	stretch	participle		all four feet not said here		out property	vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	seem	past	the sleek cat			weak property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
4	raise	to-infinitive	the sleek cat not said here	cat's head	cat's velvet cushion		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme from cushion=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 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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