The Red Fairy Book, Soria Moria Castle, sentence 154

‘Lie down on the bench and sleep a little, for we have no bed to offer you,’ said she, ‘and I will watch for the coming of the West Wind.’

Who acts: we, bed, woman, I · What happens: lie down, sleep, have, offer, say, watch · To what, where: bench, little, bed, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Soria Moria Castle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, bed, woman, I), 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	_	2 Lie	punct
2	Lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 said	ccomp
3	down	down	ADV	_	2 Lie	advmod
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 bench	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bench	det
6	bench	bench	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Lie	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 sleep	cc
8	sleep	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Lie	conj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 little	det
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 sleep	obl:unmarked
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 have	punct
12	for	for	SCONJ	_	14 have	mark
13	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 have	nsubj
14	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Lie	advcl
15	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	16 bed	det
16	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 have	obj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 offer	mark
18	offer	offer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 have	xcomp
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 offer	iobj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Lie	punct
21	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Lie	punct
22	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 said	nsubj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 ‘	punct
25	‘	‘	INTJ	_	22 said	parataxis
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 watch	cc
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 watch	nsubj
28	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 watch	aux
29	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 said	conj
30	for	for	SCONJ	_	32 coming	mark
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 coming	det
32	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 watch	advcl
33	of	of	ADP	_	36 Wind	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 Wind	det
35	West	West	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 Wind	compound
36	Wind	Wind	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 coming	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	29 watch	punct
38	’	'	PUNCT	_	29 watch	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	lie down	infinitive				the bench	down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bench=Location
2	sleep	present		a little				vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	have	present	we	no bed				tree rules
4	offer	to-infinitive	no bed not said here		you			vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent you=Theme
5	say speech: assert	past	woman					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	watch	future	I					vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
7	come	gerund	I not said here				of the West Wind	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme of wind=Initial_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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