The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 114

In the morning the King came, and when he beheld him lying on the ground he imagined the ghosts had been too much for him, and that he was dead.

Who acts: King, other, ghosts · What happens: come, behold, lie, imagine, be · To what, where: other, ground

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, other, ghosts), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 morning	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 morning	det
3	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 King	det
5	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 came	nsubj
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 imagined	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 imagined	cc
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 beheld	advmod
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 beheld	nsubj
11	beheld	behold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 imagined	advcl
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 beheld	obj
13	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 beheld	xcomp
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 ground	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 ground	det
16	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lying	obl
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 imagined	nsubj
18	imagined	imagine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 came	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 ghosts	det
20	ghosts	ghost	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 much	nsubj
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 much	aux
22	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 much	cop
23	too	too	ADV	_	24 much	advmod
24	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 imagined	ccomp
25	for	for	ADP	_	26 him	case
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 much	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 dead	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 dead	cc
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 dead	mark
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 dead	nsubj
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 dead	cop
32	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 came	advcl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	the King			morning		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	behold	past	King	other				tree rules
3	lie	gerund	King not said here		the ground			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on ground=Location
4	imagine	past	other					vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
5	is	past · perfect	the ghosts				for other; much property	tree rules
6	is	past	other				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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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