The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 150

Next morning, when the goose-girl came to let out the geese, she heard the Priest bemoaning himself as he lay in the sack in the goose-house.

Who acts: goose girl, girl, Priest · What happens: come, let out, hear, bemoan, lie · To what, where: geese, Priest, sack

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master Thief. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (goose girl, girl, Priest), 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	Next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 morning	amod
2	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 came	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 came	punct
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 came	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 girl	det
6	goose	goose	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 girl	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 goose	punct
8	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 came	nsubj
9	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	to	to	PART	_	11 let	mark
11	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 came	xcomp
12	out	out	ADP	_	11 let	compound:prt
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 geese	det
14	geese	goose	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 let	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 heard	punct
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 heard	nsubj
17	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 came	conj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Priest	det
19	Priest	Priest	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 heard	obj
20	bemoaning	bemoan	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 heard	advcl
21	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	20 bemoaning	obj
22	as	as	SCONJ	_	24 lay	mark
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 lay	nsubj
24	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 heard	advcl
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 sack	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 sack	det
27	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 lay	obl
28	in	in	ADP	_	32 house	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 house	det
30	goose	goose	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 house	compound
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 goose	punct
32	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 lay	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	the goose girl			morning		tree rules
2	let out	to-infinitive	the goose girl not said here	the geese				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goose=Theme
3	hear	past	girl	the Priest				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer priest=Stimulus
4	bemoan	gerund	girl not said here	Priest				tree rules
5	lie	past	Priest		the sack		in the goose house	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in sack=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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