The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 90

The smith then had to go in at the window, just as he came out, and went and laid himself all his length on the left side of the princess’s chest, close up to it, and there he lay stiff as a rock until the clock struck twelve.

Who acts: smith, clock · What happens: have, go in, come out, go, lay, close up · To what, where: window, smith, left side, chest, twelve

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 (smith, clock), 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 smith	det
2	smith	smith	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	nsubj
3	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 had	advmod
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 go	mark
6	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 had	xcomp
7	in	in	ADV	_	6 go	advmod
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 window	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 window	det
10	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 go	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 came	punct
12	just	just	ADV	_	15 came	advmod
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	15 came	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 came	nsubj
15	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 go	advcl
16	out	out	ADV	_	15 came	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 went	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 went	cc
19	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 had	conj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 laid	cc
21	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 went	conj
22	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	21 laid	obj
23	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	25 length	det:predet
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 length	nmod:poss
25	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 laid	obl:unmarked
26	on	on	ADP	_	29 side	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 side	det
28	left	left	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 side	amod
29	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 laid	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	34 chest	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 princess	det
32	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 chest	nmod:poss
33	’s	's	PART	_	32 princess	case
34	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 side	nmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 close	punct
36	close	close	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 went	conj
37	up	up	ADP	_	36 close	compound:prt
38	to	to	ADP	_	39 it	case
39	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 close	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 lay	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 lay	cc
42	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	44 lay	expl
43	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 lay	nsubj
44	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 had	conj
45	stiff	stiff	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 lay	xcomp
46	as	as	ADP	_	48 rock	case
47	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	48 rock	det
48	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 lay	obl
49	until	until	SCONJ	_	52 struck	mark
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 clock	det
51	clock	clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 struck	nsubj
52	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 lay	advcl
53	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	52 struck	obj
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the smith				then		tree rules
2	go in	to-infinitive	the smith not said here			the window			vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at window=Location
3	come out	past	smith					out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
4	go	past	the smith not said here						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	lay	past	the smith not said here	smith		the left side of the princess's chest		smith's length obl:unmarked	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent himself=Theme on side=Destination
6	close up	infinitive	the smith not said here		chest				vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to it=Recipient
7	lie	past	smith			there		as a rock; stiff property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	strike	past	the clock	twelve					vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent twelve=Patient

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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