The Red Fairy Book, Wonderful Growth of the Beanstalk, sentence 19

‘So he bribed a false servant to let him inside the castle, when the knight was in bed and asleep, and he killed him as he lay.

Who acts: Rumour, knight · What happens: bribe, let, be, kill, lie · To what, where: false servant, Rumour, castle, bed

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Wonderful Growth of the Beanstalk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rumour, knight), 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	_	4 bribed	punct
2	So	so	ADV	_	4 bribed	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 bribed	nsubj
4	bribed	bribe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 servant	det
6	false	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 servant	amod
7	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bribed	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 let	mark
9	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 bribed	advcl
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 let	obj
11	inside	inside	ADP	_	13 castle	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 castle	det
13	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 let	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 bed	punct
15	when	when	SCONJ	_	20 bed	mark
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 knight	det
17	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 bed	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 bed	cop
19	in	in	ADP	_	20 bed	case
20	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 castle	conj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 asleep	cc
22	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 bed	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 killed	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 killed	cc
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 killed	nsubj
26	killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 bribed	conj
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 killed	obj
28	as	as	SCONJ	_	30 lay	mark
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 lay	nsubj
30	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 killed	advcl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 bribed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	bribe	past	Rumour	a false servant		vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent servant=Patient
2	let	to-infinitive	Rumour not said here	Rumour	the castle and bed	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	is	past	the knight		bed	tree rules
4	be		the knight not said here			tree rules
5	kill	past	knight	Rumour		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
6	lie	past	Rumour			vn assuming_position-50 «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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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