The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 104

It was now dark, and while the girl was laying the cloth and setting down the dishes, and the prince had begun to appease his hunger, he heard the most piteous shrieks and cries from the next room.

Who acts: supper, girl, prince · What happens: be, lay, set down, begin, appease, hear · To what, where: cloth, dishes, hunger, piteous shrieks, next room

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (supper, girl, prince), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 dark	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dark	cop
3	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 dark	advmod
4	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 laying	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 laying	cc
7	while	while	SCONJ	_	11 laying	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 girl	det
9	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 laying	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 laying	aux
11	laying	lay	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 dark	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 cloth	det
13	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 laying	obj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 setting	cc
15	setting	set	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 laying	conj
16	down	down	ADP	_	18 dishes	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 dishes	det
18	dishes	dish	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 setting	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 begun	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 begun	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 prince	det
22	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 begun	nsubj
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 begun	aux
24	begun	begin	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 dark	parataxis
25	to	to	PART	_	26 appease	mark
26	appease	appease	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 begun	xcomp
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 hunger	nmod:poss
28	hunger	hunger	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 appease	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 heard	punct
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 heard	nsubj
31	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dark	parataxis
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 shrieks	det
33	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	34 piteous	advmod
34	piteous	piteous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 shrieks	amod
35	shrieks	shriek	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 heard	obj
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 cries	cc
37	cries	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 heard	conj
38	from	from	ADP	_	41 room	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 room	det
40	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 room	amod
41	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 cries	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 dark	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	supper			now	dark property	tree rules
2	lay	past · progressive	the girl	the cloth				vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cloth=Result
3	set down	gerund	the girl not said here	the dishes				vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient dish=Result
4	begin	past · perfect	the prince					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	appease	to-infinitive	the prince not said here	prince's hunger				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus hunger=Experiencer
6	hear	past	prince	the piteous shrieks				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer shriek=Stimulus
7	cry speech: express	present	prince not said here		the next room			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	hunger		prince					nom hunger «state intransitive»: poss=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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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