The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 115

Soon snores were heard from the corner where the giant lay, and then the queen lay down too, and the horses, and the king was hidden between them, so that none could see him.

Who acts: queen, none · What happens: hear, lie down, hide, see · To what, where: Soon snores, corner, king

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (queen, none), 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	Soon	soon	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 snores	amod
2	snores	snore	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 heard	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 heard	aux:pass
4	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 corner	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 corner	det
7	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 heard	obl
8	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	11 lay	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 lay	det
10	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 lay	amod
11	lay	lay	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 corner	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 lay	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 lay	cc
14	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 lay	advmod
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 queen	det
16	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 lay	nsubj
17	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 heard	conj
18	down	down	ADV	_	17 lay	advmod
19	too	too	ADV	_	17 lay	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 horses	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 horses	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 horses	det
23	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 heard	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 hidden	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 hidden	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 king	det
27	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 hidden	nsubj:pass
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 hidden	aux:pass
29	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 heard	conj
30	between	between	ADP	_	31 them	case
31	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 hidden	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 see	punct
33	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	37 see	mark
34	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 so	fixed
35	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	37 see	nsubj
36	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 see	aux
37	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 hidden	conj
38	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 see	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past · passive		Soon snores	the corner the giant lay		the horses obl	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Topic from corner=Source
2	lie down	past	the queen			then	down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	hide	past · passive		the king			between snores = snore	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Patient between they=Location
4	see	could	none	king				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus

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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