The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 24

‘I think I am ill; I am cold,’ he said, and signing to the bearers, he drew the curtains, and was carried through the forest right inside his own house.

Who acts: I, slave · What happens: think, be, say, sign, draw, carry · To what, where: bearers, curtains, forest · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac 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 (I, slave), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	3 think	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 think	nsubj
3	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 said	ccomp
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 ill	nsubj
5	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 ill	cop
6	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 think	ccomp
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 cold	punct
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 cold	nsubj
9	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 cold	cop
10	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 ill	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 think	punct
12	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 think	punct
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 said	nsubj
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 drew	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 drew	cc
17	signing	sign	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 drew	advcl
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 bearers	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 bearers	det
20	bearers	bearer	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 signing	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 signing	punct
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 drew	nsubj
23	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 said	conj
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 curtains	det
25	curtains	curtain	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 drew	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 carried	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 carried	cc
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 carried	aux:pass
29	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 said	conj
30	through	through	ADP	_	32 forest	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 forest	det
32	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 carried	obl
33	right	right	ADV	_	37 house	advmod
34	inside	inside	ADP	_	37 house	case
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 house	nmod:poss
36	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 house	amod
37	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 carried	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	I					vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	I				ill property	tree rules
3	is	present	I				cold property	tree rules
4	say speech: assert	past	slave					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	sign	gerund	slave not said here		the bearers			vn instr_communication-37.4.1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent to bearer=Recipient
6	draw	past	slave	the curtains				vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent curtain=Theme
7	carry	past · passive	slave not said here			the forest	inside slave's own house	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»

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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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