The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter I, sentence 21

I attempted to rise, but could not; for as I happened to be lying on my back, I found my arms and legs were fastened on each side to the ground; and my hair, which was long and thick, tied down in the same manner.

Who acts: I, hair · What happens: attempt, rise, happen, lie, find, fasten · To what, where: hair, back, arms, same manner · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, hair), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 attempted	nsubj
2	attempted	attempt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 rise	mark
4	rise	rise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 attempted	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 could	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 could	cc
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	2 attempted	conj
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 could	advmod
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 happened	punct
10	for	for	SCONJ	_	13 happened	mark
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 happened	mark
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 happened	nsubj
13	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 attempted	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	16 lying	mark
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 lying	aux
16	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 happened	advcl
17	on	on	ADP	_	19 back	case
18	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 back	nmod:poss
19	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 lying	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 found	punct
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 found	nsubj
22	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 happened	parataxis
23	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 arms	nmod:poss
24	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 fastened	nsubj:pass
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 legs	cc
26	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 arms	conj
27	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 fastened	aux:pass
28	fastened	fasten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 found	ccomp
29	on	on	ADP	_	31 side	case
30	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	31 side	det
31	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 fastened	obl
32	to	to	ADP	_	34 ground	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 ground	det
34	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 side	nmod
35	;	;	PUNCT	_	38 hair	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 hair	cc
37	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 hair	nmod:poss
38	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 attempted	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 long	punct
40	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	42 long	nsubj
41	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 long	cop
42	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 hair	amod
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 thick	cc
44	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 long	conj
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 tied	punct
46	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	42 long	conj
47	down	down	ADP	_	46 tied	compound:prt
48	in	in	ADP	_	51 manner	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 manner	det
50	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 manner	amod
51	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 tied	obl
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 attempted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	attempt	past	I	my hair			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	rise not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	happen	past	I				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	lie	to-infinitive · progressive	I not said here		my back		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on back=Location
5	find	past	I				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	fasten	past · passive		my arms and legs		on each side to the ground	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient on side=Co-Patient
7	is	past	my hair			long property	tree rules
8	be		my hair not said here				tree rules
9	tie down	participle	my hair not said here		the same manner		vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient

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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