The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 33

He laid it in his own place in the bed, and then hid himself in a dark corner of the room.

Who acts: club · What happens: lay, hide · To what, where: billet, own place, club, dark corner

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Jack the Giant-killer. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (club), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 laid	nsubj
2	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 laid	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 place	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 place	nmod:poss
6	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 place	amod
7	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 laid	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 bed	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 bed	det
10	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 place	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 hid	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 hid	cc
13	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 hid	advmod
14	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 laid	conj
15	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	14 hid	obj
16	in	in	ADP	_	19 corner	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 corner	det
18	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 corner	amod
19	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 hid	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 room	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 room	det
22	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 corner	nmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 laid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lay	past	club	billet		club's own place in the bed			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in place=Destination
2	hide	past	club not said here	club		a dark corner of the room	then		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent himself=Patient in corner=Location

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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