The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 42

Indeed, he felt that he really could not carry the bundle any further, and was about to lay it down when up came a young maiden more beautiful than the day, and covered with precious stones.

Who acts: king · What happens: feel, not carry, be, lay down, come, cover · To what, where: bundle, young maiden

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), 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	Indeed	indeed	ADV	_	4 felt	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Indeed	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 felt	nsubj
4	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 carry	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 carry	nsubj
7	really	really	ADV	_	10 carry	advmod
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 carry	aux
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 carry	advmod
10	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 felt	ccomp
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 bundle	det
12	bundle	bundle	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 carry	obj
13	any	any	ADV	_	14 further	advmod
14	further	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	10 carry	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 about	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 about	cc
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 about	cop
18	about	about	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 felt	advcl
19	to	to	PART	_	20 lay	mark
20	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 about	xcomp
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 lay	obj
22	down	down	ADP	_	20 lay	compound:prt
23	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	25 came	advmod
24	up	up	ADP	_	25 came	advmod
25	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 lay	advcl
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 maiden	det
27	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 maiden	amod
28	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 came	obj
29	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	30 beautiful	advmod
30	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 maiden	amod
31	than	than	ADP	_	33 day	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 day	det
33	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 beautiful	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 covered	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 covered	cc
36	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 felt	conj
37	with	with	ADP	_	39 stones	case
38	precious	precious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 stones	amod
39	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 covered	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 felt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	feel	past	king		indeed property	vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	not carry	could	king	the bundle	far property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bundle=Theme
3	is	past	king not said here		about property	tree rules
4	lay down	to-infinitive	king not said here	bundle		vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Result
5	come	past	king not said here	a young maiden		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location maiden=Theme
6	cover	participle	king not said here		with precious stones	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with stone=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 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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