The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1, sentence 35

When she saw the runner lying there asleep, she was delighted, and said, ‘My enemy is given into my hands!’

Who acts: horse, runner · What happens: see, lie, be, say, give · To what, where: runner, enemy, hands · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (horse, runner), 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	3 saw	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 saw	nsubj
3	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 said	advcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 runner	det
5	runner	runner	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 saw	obj
6	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 runner	acl
7	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 lying	advmod
8	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 lying	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 delighted	punct
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 delighted	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 delighted	cop
12	delighted	delighted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 saw	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 said	cc
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct
17	‘	'	PUNCT	_	21 given	punct
18	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 enemy	nmod:poss
19	enemy	enemy	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 given	nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 given	aux:pass
21	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 said	ccomp
22	into	into	ADP	_	24 hands	case
23	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 hands	nmod:poss
24	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 given	obl
25	!	!	PUNCT	_	21 given	punct
26	’	'	PUNCT	_	21 given	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	past	horse	the runner			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer runner=Stimulus
2	lie	gerund	the runner not said here		there	asleep property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	horse			delighted property	tree rules
4	say speech: assert	past					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	give	present · passive		My enemy	my hands		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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 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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