The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter III, sentence 39

I offered to lie down that he might the more conveniently reach my ear; but he chose rather to let me hold him in my hand during our conversation.

Who acts: I, Reldresal, me, our · What happens: offer, lie down, reach, choose, let, hold · To what, where: ear, me, Reldresal, hand

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter III. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Reldresal, me, our), 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 offered	nsubj
2	offered	offer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 lie	mark
4	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 offered	xcomp
5	down	down	ADP	_	4 lie	compound:prt
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 reach	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 reach	nsubj
8	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 reach	aux
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 more	det
10	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	11 conveniently	advmod
11	conveniently	conveniently	ADV	_	12 reach	advmod
12	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 lie	advcl
13	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 ear	nmod:poss
14	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 reach	obj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 chose	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 chose	cc
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 chose	nsubj
18	chose	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 offered	conj
19	rather	rather	ADV	_	18 chose	advmod
20	to	to	PART	_	21 let	mark
21	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 chose	advcl
22	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 let	obj
23	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 let	xcomp
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 hold	obj
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 hand	case
26	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 hand	nmod:poss
27	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 hold	obl
28	during	during	ADP	_	30 conversation	case
29	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 conversation	nmod:poss
30	conversation	conversation	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 hold	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 offered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	offer	past	I					tree rules
2	lie down not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	reach	might	Reldresal	my ear			conveniently property	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent ear=Theme
4	choose	past	Reldresal					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	let	to-infinitive	Reldresal not said here	me				tree rules
6	hold	infinitive	me not said here	Reldresal	my hand	during our conversation		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme in hand=Location
7	converse		our					nom conversation «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

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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