The Blue Fairy Book, The Princess on the Glass Hill, sentence 18

Everything was quiet, and everything stayed quiet, and when he had lain still a short time he heard something that sounded as if a horse were standing chewing just outside the barn door.

Who acts: Everything, Cinderlad, horse · What happens: be, stay, lie, hear, sound, stand · To what, where: something

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess on the Glass Hill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Everything, Cinderlad, horse), 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	Everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	3 quiet	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 quiet	cop
3	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 stayed	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 stayed	cc
6	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	7 stayed	nsubj
7	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 quiet	parataxis
8	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 stayed	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 lain	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 lain	cc
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 lain	advmod
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 lain	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 lain	aux
14	lain	lie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 stayed	conj
15	still	still	ADV	_	18 time	advmod
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 time	det
17	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 time	amod
18	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 lain	obl
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 heard	nsubj
20	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 time	acl:relcl
21	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	20 heard	obj
22	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 sounded	nsubj
23	sounded	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 something	acl:relcl
24	as	as	SCONJ	_	29 standing	mark
25	if	if	SCONJ	_	29 standing	mark
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 horse	det
27	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 standing	nsubj
28	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 standing	aux
29	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 sounded	advcl
30	chewing	chew	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 standing	advcl
31	just	just	ADV	_	35 door	advmod
32	outside	outside	ADP	_	35 door	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 door	det
34	barn	barn	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 door	compound
35	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 chewing	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 quiet	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Everything			quiet property	tree rules
2	stay	past	everything			quiet property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	lie	past · perfect	Cinderlad		time		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	hear	past	Cinderlad	something			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer something=Stimulus
5	sound	past					vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
6	stand	past · progressive	a horse				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	chew	gerund	a horse not said here			outside the barn door	vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=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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