The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 18

He lay still for a little, and, as no one moved in the room, he again let his arm glide down off the bench.

Who acts: king, arm · What happens: lie, move, let, glide down · To what, where: one, room, bench

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 (king, arm), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lay	nsubj
2	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	still	still	ADV	_	2 lay	advmod
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 little	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 little	det
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 lay	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 one	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 one	cc
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 one	punct
10	as	as	ADP	_	12 one	case
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 one	det
12	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lay	parataxis
13	moved	move	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 one	acl
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 room	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 room	det
16	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 moved	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 let	punct
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 let	nsubj
19	again	again	ADV	_	20 let	advmod
20	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 lay	conj
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 arm	nmod:poss
22	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 glide	nsubj
23	glide	glide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 let	xcomp
24	down	down	ADV	_	23 glide	advmod
25	off	off	ADP	_	27 bench	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 bench	det
27	bench	bench	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 glide	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	past	king			still	for a little	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	move	participle		no one not said here	the room			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in room=Trajectory
3	let	past	king			again		tree rules
4	glide down	present	king's arm		the bench		down property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme off bench=Trajectory

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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