The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 49

When he had got into the house, however, the worst yet remained to do, for the coverlet was on the bed in which the witch lay and slept.

Who acts: property, coverlet, witch · What happens: get, remain, do, be, lie, sleep · To what, where: house, worst, bed

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (property, coverlet, witch), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 got	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 got	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 got	aux
4	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 house	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 house	det
7	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 got	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 remained	punct
9	however	however	ADV	_	14 remained	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 however	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 worst	det
12	worst	bad	ADJ	Degree=Sup	14 remained	nsubj:pass
13	yet	yet	ADV	_	14 remained	advmod
14	remained	remain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 got	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 do	mark
16	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 remained	xcomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 bed	punct
18	for	for	ADP	_	24 bed	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 coverlet	det
20	coverlet	coverlet	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 bed	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 bed	cop
22	on	on	ADP	_	24 bed	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 bed	det
24	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 do	obl
25	in	in	ADP	_	26 which	case
26	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 lay	obl
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 witch	det
28	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 lay	nsubj
29	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 bed	parataxis
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 slept	cc
31	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 lay	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 got	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past · perfect	property		the house			vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into house=Destination
2	remain	participle · passive		the worst		yet	however property	tree rules
3	do	to-infinitive						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	the coverlet				for the bed	tree rules
5	lie	past	the witch		the bed			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in which=Location
6	sleep	past	the witch not said here					vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: 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 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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