The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 14

The bench was a narrow one, and as he slept his arm fell down and hung by the side of it.

Who acts: bench, king · What happens: be, sleep, fall down, hang · To what, where: narrow one, arm

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bench, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bench	det
2	bench	bench	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 one	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 one	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 one	det
5	narrow	narrow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 one	amod
6	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 fell	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 fell	cc
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 slept	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 slept	nsubj
11	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 fell	advcl
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 arm	nmod:poss
13	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 slept	obj
14	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 one	parataxis
15	down	down	ADV	_	14 fell	advmod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 hung	cc
17	hung	hang	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 fell	conj
18	by	by	ADP	_	20 side	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 side	det
20	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 hung	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 it	case
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 side	nmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 one	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the bench	a narrow one		tree rules
2	sleep	past	king	king's arm		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Theme
3	fall down	past			down property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	hang	participle			by the side of bench	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by side=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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