The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 160
But when the seventh came to his bed, he started back in amazement, for there he beheld Snowdrop fast asleep.
Who acts: seventh · What happens: come, start back, behold · To what, where: bed, amazement, 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 (seventh), 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 | _ | 11 started | cc |
| 2 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 came | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 seventh | det |
| 4 | seventh | seventh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 started | advcl |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 bed | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 bed | nmod:poss |
| 8 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 started | nsubj |
| 11 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | back | back | ADV | _ | 11 started | advmod |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 amazement | case |
| 14 | amazement | amazement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 started | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 beheld | punct |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 there | case |
| 17 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 beheld | obl |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 beheld | nsubj |
| 19 | beheld | behold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 started | conj |
| 20 | Snowdrop | Snowdrop | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 beheld | obj |
| 21 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 22 asleep | advmod |
| 22 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 beheld | xcomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 started | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the seventh | seventh's bed | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | start back | past | seventh | amazement | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | behold | past | seventh | Snowdrop | asleep property | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer snowdrop=Stimulus |
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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