The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 161

Then he called the others, who turned their little lamps full on the bed, and when they saw Snowdrop lying there they nearly fell down with surprise.

Who acts: seventh, others, Snowdrop · What happens: call, turn, see, lie, fall down · To what, where: others, little lamps, Snowdrop · Speech: someone speaks here

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, others, Snowdrop), 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	3 called	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 called	nsubj
3	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 others	det
5	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 called	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 turned	punct
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 turned	nsubj
8	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 others	acl:relcl
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 lamps	nmod:poss
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 lamps	amod
11	lamps	lamp	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 turned	obj
12	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 turned	xcomp
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 bed	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 bed	det
15	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 full	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 saw	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 saw	cc
18	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	20 saw	advmod
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 saw	nsubj
20	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 called	conj
21	Snowdrop	Snowdrop	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 saw	obj
22	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 saw	xcomp
23	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 lying	advmod
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 fell	nsubj
25	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	26 fell	advmod
26	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 lying	ccomp
27	down	down	ADV	_	26 fell	advmod
28	with	with	ADP	_	29 surprise	case
29	surprise	surprise	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 fell	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	past	seventh	the others		then		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent other=Recipient
2	turn	past	the others	others's little lamps			full property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent lamp=Theme
3	see	past	others = other	Snowdrop				tree rules
4	lie	gerund	Snowdrop not said here		there			tree rules
5	fall down	past	others = other				with surprise; down, nearly property	vn occur-48.3 «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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