The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 67

Now it was the time when the countess took her walk, attended by her maidens, and when they saw a man lying by the lake they shrank back in terror, for he lay so still that they thought he was dead.

Who acts: face, countess, maidens, man · What happens: be, take, walk, attend, see, lie · To what, where: time, man, lake, terror · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac 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 (face, countess, maidens, 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 time	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 time	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 time	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 time	det
5	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 took	obl:unmarked
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 took	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 countess	det
8	countess	countess	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 took	nsubj
9	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 walk	nmod:poss
11	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 took	xcomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 attended	punct
13	attended	attend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 walk	advcl
14	by	by	ADP	_	16 maidens	case
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 maidens	nmod:poss
16	maidens	maiden	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 attended	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 saw	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 saw	cc
19	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	21 saw	advmod
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 saw	nsubj
21	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 took	conj
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 man	det
23	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 saw	obj
24	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 man	acl
25	by	by	ADP	_	27 lake	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 lake	det
27	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 lying	obl
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 shrank	nsubj
29	shrank	shrink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 lake	acl:relcl
30	back	back	ADV	_	29 shrank	advmod
31	in	in	ADP	_	32 terror	case
32	terror	terror	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 shrank	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 lay	punct
34	for	for	SCONJ	_	36 lay	mark
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 lay	nsubj
36	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 saw	parataxis
37	so	so	ADV	_	38 still	advmod
38	still	still	ADV	_	36 lay	advmod
39	that	that	SCONJ	_	41 thought	mark
40	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 thought	nsubj
41	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 lay	advcl
42	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 dead	nsubj
43	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 dead	cop
44	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 thought	ccomp
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	face	the time		now		tree rules
2	take	past	the countess					vn require-103 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition
3	walk	infinitive	the countess not said here					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	attend	participle	the countess not said here				by countess's maidens	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent by maiden=Theme
5	see	past	maidens = maiden	a man				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus
6	lie	gerund	a man not said here				by the lake	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by lake=Location
7	shrink back	past	maidens = maiden	the lake not said here	terror			vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent lake=Patient
8	lie	past	man			still		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	think speech: other	past	maidens = maiden					vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
10	is	past	man				dead property	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 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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