The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2, sentence 90

So when the day approached he put on his invisible belt, took a sack of gold pieces with him, and slipping into her room in the middle of the night, he placed the bag of gold beside her bed and returned to his sheep.

Who acts: day, BOY · What happens: approach, put, take, slip, place, return · To what, where: invisible belt, sack, room, bag, bed

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (day, BOY), 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	So	so	ADV	_	7 put	advmod
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 approached	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 day	det
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 approached	nsubj
5	approached	approach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 put	advcl
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 put	nsubj
7	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	on	on	ADP	_	11 belt	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 belt	nmod:poss
10	invisible	invisible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 belt	amod
11	belt	belt	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 put	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 took	punct
13	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 put	conj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 sack	det
15	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 took	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 pieces	case
17	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 pieces	compound
18	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 sack	nmod
19	with	with	ADP	_	20 him	case
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 pieces	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 slipping	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 slipping	cc
23	slipping	slip	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 took	advcl
24	into	into	ADP	_	26 room	case
25	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 room	nmod:poss
26	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 slipping	obl
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 middle	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 middle	det
29	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 slipping	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 night	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 night	det
32	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 middle	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 placed	punct
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 placed	nsubj
35	placed	place	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 took	conj
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 bag	det
37	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 placed	obj
38	of	of	ADP	_	39 gold	case
39	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 bag	nmod
40	beside	beside	ADP	_	42 bed	case
41	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 bed	nmod:poss
42	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 placed	obl
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 returned	cc
44	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 placed	conj
45	to	to	ADP	_	47 sheep	case
46	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	47 sheep	nmod:poss
47	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 returned	obl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	approach	past	the day				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	put	past	BOY		BOY's invisible belt		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on belt=Destination
3	take	past	BOY not said here	a sack of gold pieces with BOY			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sack=Theme
4	slip	gerund	BOY not said here		company's room	in the middle of the night	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in middle=Attribute
5	place	past	BOY	the bag of gold	company's bed		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bag=Theme beside bed=Destination
6	return	past	BOY not said here			to BOY's sheep result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to sheep=Result

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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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