The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 62

When all was quiet in the church, the smith lay down before the altar and slept calmly till the following morning, when the colonel came to fetch him.

Who acts: all, smith, colonel · What happens: be, lie down, sleep, follow, come, fetch · To what, where: church, altar, colonel

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (all, smith, colonel), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 quiet	advmod
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 quiet	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 quiet	cop
4	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 church	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 church	det
7	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 quiet	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 lay	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 smith	det
10	smith	smith	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lay	nsubj
11	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 quiet	parataxis
12	down	down	ADV	_	11 lay	advmod
13	before	before	ADP	_	15 altar	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 altar	det
15	altar	altar	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lay	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 slept	cc
17	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 lay	conj
18	calmly	calmly	ADV	_	17 slept	advmod
19	till	till	ADP	_	22 morning	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 morning	det
21	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 morning	amod
22	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 slept	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 came	punct
24	when	when	SCONJ	_	27 came	mark
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 colonel	det
26	colonel	colonel	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 came	nsubj
27	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 quiet	conj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 fetch	mark
29	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 came	xcomp
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 fetch	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 quiet	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	all		the church		quiet property	tree rules
2	lie down	past	the smith		the altar		down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before altar=Location
3	sleep	past	the smith not said here			morning	calmly property	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	follow	gerund						vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	come	past	the colonel					tree rules
6	fetch	to-infinitive	the colonel not said here	colonel				vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

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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