The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 67

Her husband was lying sleeping off the effects of a drinking bout, so she pulled off all his clothes and made him black as coal from head to foot, and then let him sleep till far on in the day.

Who acts: husband, Death, carpenter · What happens: lie, sleep off, drink, pull off, make, let · To what, where: effects, clothes, black coal, carpenter, head, drinking bout

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 (husband, Death, 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	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 husband	nmod:poss
2	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lying	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lying	aux
4	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	sleeping	sleep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 lying	xcomp
6	off	off	ADP	_	8 effects	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 effects	det
8	effects	effect	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 sleeping	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 bout	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 bout	det
11	drinking	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 bout	amod
12	bout	bout	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 effects	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 pulled	punct
14	so	so	ADV	_	16 pulled	advmod
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 pulled	nsubj
16	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lying	conj
17	off	off	ADP	_	16 pulled	compound:prt
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 clothes	det:predet
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 clothes	nmod:poss
20	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	16 pulled	obj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 made	cc
22	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 pulled	conj
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 made	obj
24	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 coal	amod
25	as	as	ADP	_	24 black	fixed
26	coal	coal	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 made	obj
27	from	from	ADP	_	28 head	case
28	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 made	obl
29	to	to	ADP	_	30 foot	case
30	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 made	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 let	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 let	cc
33	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	34 let	advmod
34	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 lying	conj
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 let	obj
36	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 let	xcomp
37	till	till	ADV	_	38 far	advmod
38	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	36 sleep	advmod
39	on	on	ADP	_	42 day	case
40	in	in	ADP	_	42 day	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 day	det
42	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 sleep	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 lying	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	past · progressive	Death's husband						tree rules
2	sleep off	gerund	Death's husband not said here	the effects of a drinking bout					vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent effect=Theme
3	drink	gerund							vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	pull off	past	Death	carpenter's clothes					vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Eventuality
5	make	past	Death not said here	black coal	carpenter	head		to foot	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP PP»: agent=Asset he=Beneficiary coal=Product from head=Material
6	let	infinitive	Death's husband not said here	carpenter			then		tree rules
7	sleep	infinitive	carpenter not said here				day	far property	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	effect			a drinking bout					nom effect «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient

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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