The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 36

On the floor lay seven lindorm skins and six snow-white shirts, and beside these three worn-out scrubbing brushes, while in the bed a beautiful youth was lying asleep beside the fair young maiden.

Who acts: these, worn out, beautiful youth · What happens: lie, out, scrub · To what, where: seven lindorm skins, floor, brushes, bed

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (these, worn out, beautiful youth), 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	On	on	ADP	_	3 floor	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 floor	det
3	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lay	obl
4	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 skins	nummod
6	lindorm	lindorm	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 skins	compound
7	skins	skin	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 lay	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 shirts	cc
9	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 shirts	nummod
10	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 white	obl
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 snow	punct
12	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 shirts	amod
13	shirts	shirt	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 skins	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 out	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 out	cc
16	beside	beside	ADP	_	21 out	mark
17	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	21 out	nsubj
18	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 out	nsubj
19	worn	worn	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 out	amod
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 out	punct
21	out	out	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lay	parataxis
22	scrubbing	scrub	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 out	acl
23	brushes	brush	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 scrubbing	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 lying	punct
25	while	while	SCONJ	_	33 lying	mark
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 bed	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 bed	det
28	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 lying	obl
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 youth	det
30	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 youth	amod
31	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 lying	nsubj
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 lying	aux
33	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 lay	advcl
34	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 lying	xcomp
35	beside	beside	ADP	_	39 maiden	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 maiden	det
37	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 maiden	amod
38	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 maiden	amod
39	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 lying	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lie	past		seven lindorm skins and six white shirts	the floor		vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location skin=Theme
2	out		these				tree rules
3	scrub	gerund	worn out not said here	brushes			vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent brush=Theme
4	lie	past · progressive	a beautiful youth		the bed	beside the fair young maiden; asleep property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in bed=Location

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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