The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 79

‘Out on thee, ugly Bushy Bride, Sleeping so soft by the young King’s side, On sand and stones my bed I make, And my brother sleeps with the cold snake, Unpitied and unwept.’

Who acts: ugly Bushy Bride, I, brother · What happens: sleep, make · To what, where: sand, bed, ugly Bushy Bride

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 (ugly Bushy Bride, I, brother), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	4 thee	punct
2	Out	out	ADV	_	4 thee	advmod
3	on	on	ADP	_	4 thee	case
4	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Bride	punct
6	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Bride	amod
7	Bushy	bushy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Bride	amod
8	Bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 thee	appos
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Sleeping	punct
10	Sleeping	sleep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 Bride	acl
11	so	so	ADV	_	12 soft	advmod
12	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 Sleeping	xcomp
13	by	by	ADP	_	18 side	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 King	det
15	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 King	amod
16	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 side	nmod:poss
17	’s	's	PART	_	16 King	case
18	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 soft	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 sand	punct
20	On	on	ADP	_	21 sand	case
21	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 Sleeping	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 stones	cc
23	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 sand	conj
24	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 bed	nmod:poss
25	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 make	obj
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 make	nsubj
27	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 sand	acl:relcl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 sleeps	punct
29	And	and	CCONJ	_	32 sleeps	cc
30	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 brother	nmod:poss
31	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 sleeps	nsubj
32	sleeps	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 Bride	acl:relcl
33	with	with	ADP	_	36 snake	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 snake	det
35	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 snake	amod
36	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 sleeps	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 Unpitied	punct
38	Unpitied	unpitied	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 snake	amod
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 unwept	cc
40	unwept	unwept	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 Unpitied	conj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 Bride	punct
42	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 thee	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sleep	gerund	ugly Bushy Bride not said here		sand and stones	soft property	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	make	present	I	my bed			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bed=Product
3	sleep	present	my brother	ugly Bushy Bride not said here		with the cold snake	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bride=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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