The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 50

He slipped into the room without either she or her daughter wakening; but as soon as he touched the coverlet to take it it sounded so that it could be heard over eight kingdoms.

Who acts: property, witch, it · What happens: slip, waken, touch, take, sound, hear · To what, where: room, coverlet

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, witch, it), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 slipped	nsubj
2	slipped	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	into	into	ADP	_	5 room	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 room	det
5	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 slipped	obl
6	without	without	SCONJ	_	12 wakening	mark
7	either	either	CCONJ	_	12 wakening	cc:preconj
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 wakening	nsubj
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 daughter	cc
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 daughter	nmod:poss
11	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 wakening	nsubj
12	wakening	waken	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 slipped	advcl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 touched	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 touched	cc
15	as	as	ADV	_	16 soon	advmod
16	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	19 touched	advmod
17	as	as	SCONJ	_	19 touched	mark
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 touched	nsubj
19	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 slipped	parataxis
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 coverlet	det
21	coverlet	coverlet	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 touched	obj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 take	mark
23	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 touched	advcl
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 take	obj
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 sounded	nsubj
26	sounded	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 take	ccomp
27	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	32 heard	mark
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 so	fixed
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 heard	nsubj
30	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 heard	aux
31	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 heard	aux:pass
32	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 sounded	advcl
33	over	over	ADV	_	34 eight	advmod
34	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	35 kingdoms	nummod
35	kingdoms	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 heard	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 slipped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	slip	past	property		the room		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	waken	gerund	witch				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	touch	past	property	the coverlet		soon property	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme coverlet=Co-Theme
4	take	to-infinitive	property not said here	room			vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Theme clause=Attribute
5	sound	past	it				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
6	hear	could · passive		room			tree rules

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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