The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch (28), sentence 50

Half-dead with fright, and trembling in every limb, the poor children lay down to sleep on a heap of straw in the corner of the hut; but they dared not close their eyes, and scarcely ventured to breathe.

Who acts: poor children, children · What happens: tremble, lay down, sleep, close, venture, breathe · To what, where: limb, heap, eyes

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch (28). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor children, children), 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	Half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	3 dead	nsubj
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 dead	punct
3	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 fright	case
5	fright	fright	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dead	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 trembling	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 trembling	cc
8	trembling	tremble	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 dead	parataxis
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 limb	case
10	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	11 limb	det
11	limb	limb	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 trembling	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 lay	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 children	det
14	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 children	amod
15	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 lay	nsubj
16	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 dead	conj
17	down	down	ADV	_	16 lay	advmod
18	to	to	PART	_	19 sleep	mark
19	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 lay	advcl
20	on	on	ADP	_	22 heap	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 heap	det
22	heap	heap	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sleep	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 straw	case
24	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 heap	nmod
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 corner	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 corner	det
27	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 straw	nmod
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 hut	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 hut	det
30	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 corner	nmod
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 close	punct
32	but	but	CCONJ	_	36 close	cc
33	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 close	nsubj
34	dared	dare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 close	aux
35	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	34 dared	advmod
36	close	close	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 dead	parataxis
37	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 eyes	nmod:poss
38	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 close	obj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 ventured	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 ventured	cc
41	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	_	42 ventured	advmod
42	ventured	venture	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	36 close	conj
43	to	to	PART	_	44 breathe	mark
44	breathe	breathe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 ventured	xcomp
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 dead	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	tremble	gerund			every limb		vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in limb=Location
2	lay down	present	the poor children			down property	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	sleep	to-infinitive	the poor children not said here		a heap of straw in the corner of the hut		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	close	past	children = child	children's eyes			vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient
5	venture	participle	children = child not said here			scarcely property	vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	breathe	to-infinitive	children = child not said here				vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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