The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 23

The young man lay down in a bed which stood near, but he dared not go to sleep: and it was better that he didn’t, for the robbers came, and the old woman said that a young fellow who was a stranger had come there, and she had not been able to get him to go away again.

Who acts: young man, bed, man, robbers, old woman, young fellow · What happens: lie down, stand, go, be, not do, come · To what, where: bed, sleep, stranger · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (young man, bed, man, robbers), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 man	det
2	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lay	nsubj
4	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	down	down	ADV	_	4 lay	advmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 bed	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 bed	det
8	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lay	obl
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 stood	nsubj
10	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 bed	acl:relcl
11	near	near	ADV	_	10 stood	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 go	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 go	cc
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 go	nsubj
15	dared	dare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 go	aux
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 dared	advmod
17	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 lay	conj
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 sleep	case
19	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 go	obl
20	:	:	PUNCT	_	24 better	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 better	cc
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 better	expl
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 better	cop
24	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 lay	parataxis
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 did	mark
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 did	nsubj
27	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 better	advcl
28	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 did	advmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 came	punct
30	for	for	SCONJ	_	33 came	mark
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 robbers	det
32	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 came	nsubj
33	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lay	parataxis
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 said	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 said	cc
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 woman	det
37	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 woman	amod
38	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 said	nsubj
39	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 came	parataxis
40	that	that	SCONJ	_	49 come	mark
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 fellow	det
42	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 fellow	amod
43	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 come	nsubj
44	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	49 come	nsubj
45	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 come	aux
46	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	47 stranger	det
47	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 come	nsubj
48	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 come	aux
49	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	39 said	ccomp
50	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	49 come	advmod
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 able	punct
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	57 able	cc
53	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	57 able	nsubj
54	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	57 able	aux
55	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	57 able	advmod
56	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	57 able	cop
57	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 came	conj
58	to	to	PART	_	59 get	mark
59	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	57 able	xcomp
60	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	59 get	obj
61	to	to	PART	_	62 go	mark
62	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	59 get	xcomp
63	away	away	ADV	_	62 go	advmod
64	again	again	ADV	_	62 go	advmod
65	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie down	past	the young man		a bed		down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in bed=Location
2	stand	past	a bed				near property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	go	past	man		sleep			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to sleep=Initial_Location
4	is	past					good property	tree rules
5	not do	past	man					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	come	past	the robbers					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	say speech: assert	past	the old woman					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	come	past · perfect	a young fellow		there			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	not is	past · perfect	woman				able property	tree rules
10	get	to-infinitive	woman not said here	stranger				tree rules
11	go away	to-infinitive	stranger not said here			again	away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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