The Blue Fairy Book, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, sentence 41

So she told how every night a man came and lay down beside her when the lights were all put out, and how she never saw him, because he always went away before it grew light in the morning, and how she continually went about in sadness, thinking how happy she would be if she could but see him, and how all day long she had to go about alone, and it was so dull and solitary.

Who acts: mother, man, light · What happens: tell, come, lay down, put out, not see, go away · To what, where: lights, man, sadness · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, East of the Sun and West of the Moon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, man, light), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 told	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	9 came	advmod
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 night	det
6	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 came	obl:unmarked
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 man	det
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 came	nsubj
9	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 told	ccomp
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 lay	cc
11	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 came	conj
12	down	down	ADV	_	11 lay	advmod
13	beside	beside	ADP	_	14 her	case
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 lay	obl
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	20 put	advmod
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 lights	det
17	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 put	nsubj:pass
18	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 put	aux:pass
19	all	all	ADV	_	20 put	advmod
20	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 lay	advcl
21	out	out	ADP	_	20 put	compound:prt
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 saw	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 saw	cc
24	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	27 saw	advmod
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 saw	nsubj
26	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	27 saw	advmod
27	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 told	parataxis
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 saw	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 went	punct
30	because	because	SCONJ	_	33 went	mark
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 went	nsubj
32	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	33 went	advmod
33	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 saw	conj
34	away	away	ADV	_	33 went	advmod
35	before	before	SCONJ	_	37 grew	mark
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 grew	nsubj
37	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 went	advcl
38	light	light	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 grew	xcomp
39	in	in	ADP	_	41 morning	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 morning	det
41	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 grew	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 went	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 went	cc
44	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	47 went	advmod
45	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 went	nsubj
46	continually	continually	ADV	_	47 went	advmod
47	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 told	conj
48	about	about	ADV	_	47 went	advmod
49	in	in	ADP	_	50 sadness	case
50	sadness	sadness	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 went	obl
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 thinking	punct
52	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	47 went	advcl
53	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	54 happy	advmod
54	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 thinking	xcomp
55	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	60 could	nsubj
56	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	60 could	aux
57	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	60 could	cop
58	if	if	SCONJ	_	60 could	mark
59	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	60 could	nsubj
60	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	52 thinking	aux
61	but	but	CCONJ	_	62 see	cc
62	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	52 thinking	conj
63	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	62 see	obj
64	,	,	PUNCT	_	71 had	punct
65	and	and	CCONJ	_	71 had	cc
66	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	69 long	advmod
67	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	68 day	det
68	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	69 long	obl:unmarked
69	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	71 had	advmod
70	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	71 had	nsubj
71	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 told	conj
72	to	to	PART	_	73 go	mark
73	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	71 had	xcomp
74	about	about	ADV	_	75 alone	advmod
75	alone	alone	ADV	_	73 go	advmod
76	,	,	PUNCT	_	81 dull	punct
77	and	and	CCONJ	_	81 dull	cc
78	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	81 dull	nsubj
79	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	81 dull	cop
80	so	so	ADV	_	81 dull	advmod
81	dull	dull	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 told	parataxis
82	and	and	CCONJ	_	83 solitary	cc
83	solitary	solitary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	81 dull	conj
84	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	mother					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	come	past	a man			night		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	lay down	infinitive	a man not said here				beside mother; down property	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent beside she=Destination
4	put out	past · passive		the lights			all property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal
5	not see	past	mother	man				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
6	go away	past	man				always, away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	grow	past	light			morning	light property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	go about	past	mother		sadness		about, continually property	vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
9	think speech: other	could	mother not said here				happy property	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
10	see	infinitive	mother not said here	man				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
11	have	past	mother				long property	tree rules
12	go about	to-infinitive	mother not said here				alone property	vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
13	is	past	light				dull property	tree rules
14	be		light not said here					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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