The Red Fairy Book, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen., sentence 122
‘I took her advice, and laid myself down among the rest, as if dead, to see how he would behave.
Who acts: I, giant · What happens: take, lay down, see, behave · To what, where: advice, myself, rest · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, giant), 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 | _ | 3 took | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 advice | nmod:poss |
| 5 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 laid | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 laid | cc |
| 8 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 9 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 8 laid | obj |
| 10 | down | down | ADP | _ | 8 laid | compound:prt |
| 11 | among | among | ADP | _ | 13 rest | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 rest | det |
| 13 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 laid | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 dead | punct |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 dead | case |
| 16 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 17 dead | mark |
| 17 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 laid | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 see | punct |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 see | mark |
| 20 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 21 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 24 behave | advmod |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 behave | nsubj |
| 23 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 behave | aux |
| 24 | behave | behave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 see | ccomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | I | woman's advice | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advice=Theme | ||||
| 2 | lay down | past | I not said here | myself | the rest | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent myself=Theme among rest=Destination | |||
| 3 | see | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | behave | would | giant | vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent |
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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