The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 151

When that too had no effect it occurred to him that if two people lay together in bed they warmed each other; so he put him into the bed, covered him up, and lay down beside him; after a time the corpse became warm and began to move.

Who acts: that, effect, two people, people, man, corpse · What happens: have, occur, lay, warm, put, cover up · To what, where: effect, man, bed, each, dead

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 (that, effect, two people, people), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 had	advmod
2	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 had	nsubj
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 had	advmod
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 occurred	advcl
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 effect	det
6	effect	effect	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obj
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 occurred	nsubj
8	occurred	occur	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 him	case
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 occurred	obl
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 lay	mark
12	if	if	SCONJ	_	15 lay	mark
13	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 people	nummod
14	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 lay	nsubj
15	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 occurred	advcl
16	together	together	ADV	_	15 lay	advmod
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 bed	case
18	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 lay	obl
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 warmed	nsubj
20	warmed	warm	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 bed	acl:relcl
21	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	20 warmed	obj
22	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 each	fixed
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 put	punct
24	so	so	ADV	_	26 put	advmod
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 put	nsubj
26	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 occurred	conj
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 put	obj
28	into	into	ADP	_	30 bed	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 bed	det
30	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 put	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 covered	punct
32	covered	cover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 occurred	conj
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 covered	obj
34	up	up	ADP	_	32 covered	compound:prt
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 lay	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 lay	cc
37	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 occurred	advcl
38	down	down	ADV	_	37 lay	advmod
39	beside	beside	ADP	_	40 him	case
40	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 lay	obl
41	;	;	PUNCT	_	47 became	punct
42	after	after	ADP	_	44 time	case
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 time	det
44	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 became	obl
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 corpse	det
46	corpse	corpse	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 became	nsubj
47	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 occurred	parataxis
48	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 became	xcomp
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 began	cc
50	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 became	conj
51	to	to	PART	_	52 move	mark
52	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	50 began	xcomp
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 occurred	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	that	no effect					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent effect=Patient
2	occur	past	effect		man				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	lay	present	two people			bed		together property	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in bed=Destination
4	warm	past	people	each					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent each=Patient
5	put	past	man		dead	the bed			vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Goal
6	cover up	past	effect not said here		man				vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Destination
7	lay down	infinitive	effect not said here					beside man; down property	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent beside he=Destination
8	become	past	the corpse				time	warm property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
9	begin	past	the corpse not said here						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
10	move	to-infinitive	the corpse not said here						vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme 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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