The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 137

Then feeling tired and sleepy she lay down on one of the beds, but it wasn’t comfortable; then she tried all the others in turn, but one was too long, and another too short, and it was only when she got to the seventh that she found one to suit her exactly.

Who acts: SNOWDROP, bed, one, another · What happens: feel, lie down, not be, try, be, find · To what, where: others, turn, one, SNOWDROP

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Bushy Bride. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (SNOWDROP, bed, one, another), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 feeling	advmod
2	feeling	feel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 lay	advcl
3	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 feeling	xcomp
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 sleepy	cc
5	sleepy	sleepy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 tired	conj
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 lay	nsubj
7	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	down	down	ADV	_	7 lay	advmod
9	on	on	ADP	_	10 one	case
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 lay	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 beds	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 beds	det
13	beds	bed	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 one	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 comfortable	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 comfortable	cc
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 comfortable	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 comfortable	cop
18	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 comfortable	advmod
19	comfortable	comfortable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 lay	advcl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 tried	punct
21	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 tried	advmod
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 tried	nsubj
23	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 lay	parataxis
24	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	26 others	det:predet
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 others	det
26	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 tried	obj
27	in	in	ADP	_	28 turn	case
28	turn	turn	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 tried	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 long	punct
30	but	but	CCONJ	_	34 long	cc
31	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	34 long	nsubj
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 long	cop
33	too	too	ADV	_	34 long	advmod
34	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 tried	conj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 short	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 short	cc
37	another	another	PRON	PronType=Ind	39 short	nsubj
38	too	too	ADV	_	39 short	advmod
39	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 long	conj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 got	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 got	cc
42	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 got	nsubj
43	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 got	cop
44	only	only	ADV	_	47 got	advmod
45	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	47 got	advmod
46	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 got	nsubj
47	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 lay	conj
48	to	to	ADP	_	50 seventh	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 seventh	det
50	seventh	seventh	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 got	obl
51	that	that	SCONJ	_	53 found	mark
52	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 found	nsubj
53	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 got	advcl
54	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	53 found	obj
55	to	to	PART	_	56 suit	mark
56	suit	suit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	53 found	xcomp
57	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	56 suit	obj
58	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	56 suit	advmod
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	gerund	SNOWDROP not said here			then	tired property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	lie down	past	SNOWDROP				on one of the beds; down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on one=Location
3	not is	past	bed				comfortable property	tree rules
4	try	past	SNOWDROP	all others	turn	then		vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent other=Eventuality
5	is	past	one				long property	tree rules
6	be		another					tree rules
7	is	past	bed				to the seventh; get property	tree rules
8	find	past	SNOWDROP	one				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent one=Attribute clause=Theme
9	suit	to-infinitive	one not said here	SNOWDROP			exactly property	tree rules

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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