The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 150

Then he lifted him out, sat down at the fire, laid him on his knee, and rubbed his arms that the blood should circulate again.

Who acts: man, blood · What happens: lift out, sit down, lay, rub, circulate · To what, where: dead, fire, man, knee, arms

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 (man, blood), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 lifted	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 lifted	nsubj
3	lifted	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 lifted	obj
5	out	out	ADP	_	3 lifted	compound:prt
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 sat	punct
7	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lifted	conj
8	down	down	ADP	_	7 sat	compound:prt
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 fire	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 fire	det
11	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sat	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 laid	punct
13	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lifted	conj
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 laid	obj
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 knee	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 knee	nmod:poss
17	knee	knee	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 laid	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 rubbed	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 rubbed	cc
20	rubbed	rub	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lifted	conj
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 arms	nmod:poss
22	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 rubbed	obj
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 circulate	mark
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 blood	det
25	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 circulate	nsubj
26	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 circulate	aux
27	circulate	circulate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 rubbed	advcl
28	again	again	ADV	_	27 circulate	advmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lifted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	lift out	past	man	dead		then	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	sit down	past	man not said here		the fire		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at fire=Location
3	lay	past	man not said here	man	man's knee		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme on knee=Destination
4	rub	past	man not said here	man's arms			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent arm=Theme
5	circulate	should	the blood			again	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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