The Blue Fairy Book, The Terrible Head, sentence 15

There the brass-bound chest lay, with the Princess and her baby in it, till a man of that country came past, and saw it, and dragged it on to the beach, and when he had broken it open, behold! there was a beautiful lady and a little boy.

Who acts: bound chest, man, beautiful lady · What happens: bind, lay, come, see, drag on, break · To what, where: Princess, last, beach

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Terrible Head. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bound chest, man, beautiful lady), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	7 lay	expl
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 chest	det
3	brass	brass	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bound	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 brass	punct
5	bound	bind	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 chest	amod
6	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lay	nsubj
7	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 Princess	punct
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 Princess	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Princess	det
11	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 lay	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 baby	cc
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 baby	nmod:poss
14	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 Princess	conj
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 it	case
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 lay	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 came	punct
18	till	till	SCONJ	_	24 came	mark
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 man	det
20	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 came	nsubj
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 country	case
22	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 country	det
23	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 man	nmod
24	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 lay	parataxis
25	past	past	ADV	_	24 came	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 saw	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 saw	cc
28	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 came	conj
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 saw	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 dragged	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 dragged	cc
32	dragged	drag	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 came	conj
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 dragged	obj
34	on	on	ADP	_	32 dragged	compound:prt
35	to	to	ADP	_	37 beach	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 beach	det
37	beach	beach	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 dragged	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 broken	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 broken	cc
40	when	when	SCONJ	_	43 broken	mark
41	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 broken	nsubj
42	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 broken	aux
43	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 lay	conj
44	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 broken	obj
45	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 broken	xcomp
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 behold	punct
47	behold	behold	INTJ	_	7 lay	discourse
48	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 lay	punct
49	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	50 was	expl
50	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 lay	advcl
51	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	53 lady	det
52	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 lady	amod
53	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 was	nsubj
54	and	and	CCONJ	_	57 boy	cc
55	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	57 boy	det
56	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	57 boy	amod
57	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 lady	conj
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	bind	participle					vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
2	lay	present	the bound chest	the Princess and Princess's baby	last; there		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent princess=Theme in it=Destination
3	come	past	a man of that country			past property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	see	past	a man of that country not said here	last			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
5	drag on	past	a man of that country not said here	last	the beach		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to beach=Destination
6	break	past · perfect	man	last		open property	vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Patient
7	be	past	a beautiful lady and a little boy		there		vn exist-47.1 «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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