The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 85

Then he set two men to hold him; each of them was to take an arm, and shake him and jerk him by the arm whenever he seemed to be going to fall asleep; and he set two men to watch his Bushy Bride.

Who acts: King, each · What happens: set, hold, be, shake, jerk, seem · To what, where: two men, King, 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 (King, each), 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 set	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 set	nsubj
3	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 men	nummod
5	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 set	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 hold	mark
7	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 set	xcomp
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 hold	obj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 take	punct
10	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	15 take	nsubj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 them	case
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 each	nmod
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 take	cop
14	to	to	PART	_	15 take	mark
15	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 set	parataxis
16	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 arm	det
17	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 take	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 shake	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 shake	cc
20	shake	shake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 take	conj
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 shake	obj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 jerk	cc
23	jerk	jerk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 shake	conj
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 jerk	obj
25	by	by	ADP	_	27 arm	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 arm	det
27	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 jerk	obl
28	whenever	whenever	ADV	PronType=Rel	30 seemed	advmod
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 seemed	nsubj
30	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 jerk	advcl
31	to	to	PART	_	33 going	mark
32	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 going	aux
33	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 seemed	xcomp
34	to	to	PART	_	35 fall	mark
35	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 going	xcomp
36	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 fall	xcomp
37	;	;	PUNCT	_	40 set	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 set	cc
39	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 set	nsubj
40	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 set	conj
41	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	42 men	nummod
42	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 set	obj
43	to	to	PART	_	44 watch	mark
44	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 set	advcl
45	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	47 Bride	nmod:poss
46	Bushy	bushy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 Bride	amod
47	Bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 watch	obj
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 set	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	set	past	King	two men	then		tree rules
2	hold	to-infinitive	King not said here	King			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	is	past	each			take property	tree rules
4	shake	infinitive	each not said here	King			vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent he=Patient
5	jerk	infinitive	each not said here	King		by the arm	vn push-12-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent he=Result
6	seem	past	King			whenever property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
7	go	to-infinitive · progressive	King not said here				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	fall	to-infinitive	King not said here			asleep property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	set	past	King	two men			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient man=Result
10	watch	to-infinitive	King not said here	King's Bushy Bride			vn assessment-34.1 «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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