The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 33

The Man-eater came in late, very tired with his long walk, and flung himself on the bed, placing his sword with its shining blade by his side.

Who acts: Man eater, bed, eater · What happens: come in, fling, place, shine, walk · To what, where: eater, bed, sword, blade

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Man eater, bed, eater), 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	4 eater	det
2	Man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 eater	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 Man	punct
4	eater	eater	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	nsubj
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	in	in	ADV	_	5 came	advmod
7	late	late	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 came	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 tired	punct
9	very	very	ADV	_	10 tired	advmod
10	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 came	parataxis
11	with	with	ADP	_	14 walk	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 walk	nmod:poss
13	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 walk	amod
14	walk	walk	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tired	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 flung	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 flung	cc
17	flung	fling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 came	conj
18	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	17 flung	obj
19	on	on	ADP	_	21 bed	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 bed	det
21	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 flung	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 placing	punct
23	placing	place	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 flung	advcl
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 sword	nmod:poss
25	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 placing	obj
26	with	with	SCONJ	_	28 shining	mark
27	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 shining	nsubj
28	shining	shine	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 placing	advcl
29	blade	blade	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 shining	obj
30	by	by	ADP	_	32 side	case
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 side	nmod:poss
32	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 shining	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come in	past	the Man eater			late property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	fling	past	the Man eater not said here	eater	the bed		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent himself=Theme on bed=Destination
3	place	gerund	the Man eater not said here	eater's sword			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme
4	shine	gerund	bed	blade		by eater's side	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent blade=Theme
5	walk		eater				nom walk «act transitive»: poss=agent

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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