The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 87

On the following day the King had everything put into the castle; and when night drew on the youth took up his position there, lit a bright fire in one of the rooms, placed the carving bench with the knife close to it, and sat himself down on the turning lathe.

Who acts: King, night · What happens: follow, have, put, draw, take up, light · To what, where: everything, castle, youth, position, bright fire, carving bench

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, night), 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	On	on	ADP	_	4 day	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 day	det
3	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 day	amod
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 had	obl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 King	det
6	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 had	nsubj
7	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	7 had	obj
9	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 everything	acl
10	into	into	ADP	_	12 castle	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 castle	det
12	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 put	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 took	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 took	cc
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 drew	advmod
16	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 drew	nsubj
17	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 took	advcl
18	on	on	ADP	_	20 youth	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 youth	det
20	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 drew	obl
21	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 had	parataxis
22	up	up	ADP	_	21 took	compound:prt
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 position	nmod:poss
24	position	position	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 took	obj
25	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 took	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 lit	punct
27	lit	light	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 took	conj
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 fire	det
29	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 fire	amod
30	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 lit	obj
31	in	in	ADP	_	32 one	case
32	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 lit	obl
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 rooms	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 rooms	det
35	rooms	room	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 one	nmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 placed	punct
37	placed	place	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 took	conj
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 bench	det
39	carving	carve	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	40 bench	amod
40	bench	bench	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 placed	obj
41	with	with	ADP	_	43 knife	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 knife	det
43	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 placed	obl
44	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 knife	amod
45	to	to	ADP	_	46 it	case
46	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 close	obl
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 sat	punct
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 sat	cc
49	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 placed	conj
50	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	49 sat	obj
51	down	down	ADP	_	49 sat	compound:prt
52	on	on	ADP	_	55 lathe	case
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 lathe	det
54	turning	turning	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 lathe	compound
55	lathe	lathe	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 sat	obl
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund						vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have	past	the King	everything		day		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Patient
3	put	participle			the castle			vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
4	draw	past	night		the youth			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on youth=Destination
5	take up	past		King's position	there			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent position=Theme
6	light	past		a bright fire			in one of the rooms	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Product
7	place	past		the carving bench			with the knife	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent bench=Theme
8	carve	gerund						vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	sit down	past		King	the turning lathe			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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