The Red Fairy Book, The Nettle Spinner, sentence 138
The passing bell was rung, and he lay expecting Death to come for him.
Who acts: Count · What happens: ring, lie, expect, come · To what, where: passing bell, Death
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nettle Spinner. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Count), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 bell | det |
| 2 | passing | passing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bell | compound |
| 3 | bell | bell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rung | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 rung | aux:pass |
| 5 | rung | ring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 lay | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 lay | cc |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 lay | nsubj |
| 9 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 rung | parataxis |
| 10 | expecting | expect | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 lay | advcl |
| 11 | Death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 expecting | obj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 come | mark |
| 13 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 expecting | advcl |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 him | case |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 come | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 rung | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ring | past · passive | the passing bell | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | lie | past | Count | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | expect | gerund | Count not said here | Death | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent death=Theme | ||||
| 4 | come | to-infinitive | Count not said here | for Count | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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