The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 86

But as the night wore on the Bushy Bride again began to croon and to sing, so that his eyes began to close and his head to droop on one side.

Who acts: night, eyes · What happens: wear, begin, sing, close, droop · To what, where: croon, one side

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 (night, eyes), 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 began	cc
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	5 wore	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 night	det
4	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wore	nsubj
5	wore	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 began	advcl
6	on	on	ADP	_	9 Bride	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Bride	det
8	Bushy	bushy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 Bride	amod
9	Bride	Bride	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 wore	obl
10	again	again	ADV	_	5 wore	advmod
11	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	to	to	PART	_	13 croon	mark
13	croon	croon	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 began	obj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 sing	cc
15	to	to	PART	_	16 sing	mark
16	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 croon	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 began	punct
18	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	22 began	mark
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 so	fixed
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 eyes	nmod:poss
21	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 began	nsubj
22	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 began	conj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 close	mark
24	close	close	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 began	xcomp
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 head	cc
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 head	nmod:poss
27	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 close	conj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 droop	mark
29	droop	droop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 close	advcl
30	on	on	ADP	_	32 side	case
31	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 side	nummod
32	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 droop	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wear	past	the night			again	on the Bushy Bride	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent
2	begin	past		croon				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent croon=Eventuality
3	sing speech: express	to-infinitive						vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	begin	past	King's eyes					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	close	to-infinitive	King's eyes not said here					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
6	droop	to-infinitive	King's eyes not said here		one side			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on side=Location

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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