The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Brothers, sentence 9

But he left her no peace, till she went and unlocked the room and showed him the twelve coffins filled with shavings, and with the little pillow laid in each.

Who acts: Benjamin, Queen · What happens: leave, go, unlock, show, fill, lay · To what, where: peace, room, twelve coffins, Benjamin, each

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Brothers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Benjamin, Queen), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 left	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 left	nsubj
3	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 peace	nmod:poss
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 peace	det
6	peace	peace	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 left	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 went	punct
8	till	till	SCONJ	_	10 went	mark
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 went	nsubj
10	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 left	conj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 unlocked	cc
12	unlocked	unlock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 went	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 room	det
14	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 unlocked	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 showed	cc
16	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 went	conj
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 showed	iobj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 coffins	det
19	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 coffins	nummod
20	coffins	coffin	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 showed	obj
21	filled	fill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 coffins	acl
22	with	with	ADP	_	23 shavings	case
23	shavings	shaving	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 filled	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 laid	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 laid	cc
26	with	with	ADP	_	29 pillow	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 pillow	det
28	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 pillow	amod
29	pillow	pillow	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 laid	obl
30	laid	lay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 left	conj
31	in	in	ADP	_	32 each	case
32	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	30 laid	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 left	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	leave	past	Benjamin	Queen's peace				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peace=Theme
2	go	past	Queen					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	unlock	past	Queen not said here	the room				vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Patient
4	show	past	Queen not said here	the twelve coffins	Benjamin			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient coffin=Topic
5	fill	participle		the twelve coffins not said here			with shavings	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with shaving=Instrument
6	lay	participle	Benjamin not said here			each	with the little pillow	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in each=Destination
7	pacify		Queen					nom peace «state transitive»: 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 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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