The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 54

She then got him to lie down, and piled above him all the bedclothes she could find, and gave him various medicines, while he grew worse and worse.

Who acts: wool, carpenter · What happens: get, lie down, pile, find, give, grow · To what, where: carpenter, bedclothes, various medicines

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wool, carpenter), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 got	nsubj
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 got	advmod
3	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 got	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 lie	mark
6	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 got	xcomp
7	down	down	ADP	_	6 lie	compound:prt
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 piled	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 piled	cc
10	piled	pile	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 got	parataxis
11	above	above	ADP	_	12 him	case
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 piled	obl
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 bedclothes	det:predet
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 bedclothes	det
15	bedclothes	bedclothe	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 piled	obl:agent
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 find	nsubj
17	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 find	aux
18	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 bedclothes	acl:relcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 gave	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 gave	cc
21	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 got	parataxis
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 gave	iobj
23	various	various	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 medicines	amod
24	medicines	medicine	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 gave	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 grew	punct
26	while	while	SCONJ	_	28 grew	mark
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 grew	nsubj
28	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 gave	conj
29	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	28 grew	xcomp
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 worse	cc
31	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	29 worse	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 got	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	wool	carpenter		then		tree rules
2	lie down	to-infinitive	carpenter not said here					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	pile	participle					above carpenter	vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme above he=Destination
4	find	could	wool	all bedclothes not said here				vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bedclothe=Topic
5	give	past		various medicines	carpenter			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient medicine=Theme
6	grow	past	carpenter				bad property	vn appear-48.1.1 «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 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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