The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1, sentence 33

He had, however, put a horse’s skull which was lying on the ground, for his pillow, so that he should not be too comfortable and might soon wake up.

Who acts: wind, skull · What happens: have, put, lie, not be, wake up · To what, where: skull, ground

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wind, skull), 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 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 put	punct
4	however	however	ADV	_	6 put	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 however	punct
6	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 had	conj
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 horse	det
8	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 skull	nmod:poss
9	’s	's	PART	_	8 horse	case
10	skull	skull	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 put	obj
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 lying	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 lying	aux
13	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 skull	acl:relcl
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 ground	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 ground	det
16	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lying	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 pillow	punct
18	for	for	ADP	_	20 pillow	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 pillow	nmod:poss
20	pillow	pillow	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lying	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 comfortable	punct
22	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	29 comfortable	mark
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 so	fixed
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 comfortable	nsubj
25	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 comfortable	aux
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 comfortable	advmod
27	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 comfortable	cop
28	too	too	ADV	_	29 comfortable	advmod
29	comfortable	comfortable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 put	conj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 wake	cc
31	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 wake	aux
32	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	33 wake	advmod
33	wake	wake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 put	conj
34	up	up	ADP	_	33 wake	compound:prt
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	wind				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	put	infinitive	wind not said here	a horse's skull		however property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent skull=Goal
3	lie	past · progressive	a horse's skull		the ground	for wind's pillow	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on ground=Location
4	not is	should	wind			comfortable property	tree rules
5	wake up	might	wind not said here			soon property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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 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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