The Blue Fairy Book, The Princess on the Glass Hill, sentence 26

“I lay in the barn till the sun rose, but I saw nothing and heard nothing, not I,” said the boy.

Who acts: boy, sun · What happens: lay, rise, see, hear, say · To what, where: barn, nothing · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (boy, sun), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	3 lay	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 lay	nsubj
3	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 said	ccomp
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 barn	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 barn	det
6	barn	barn	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lay	obl
7	till	till	SCONJ	_	10 rose	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sun	det
9	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 rose	nsubj
10	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lay	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 saw	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 saw	cc
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 saw	nsubj
14	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lay	advcl
15	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	14 saw	obj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 heard	cc
17	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 saw	conj
18	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	17 heard	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 I	punct
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 I	advmod
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 heard	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 heard	punct
23	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 lay	punct
24	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 boy	det
26	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 said	nsubj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	lay in a quote	present	the boy = boy		the barn	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in barn=Destination
2	rise in a quote	past	the sun			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	see in a quote	past	the boy = boy	nothing		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus
4	hear in a quote	past	the boy = boy not said here	nothing		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus
5	say speech: assert	past	the boy			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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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