The Yellow Fairy Book, The Six Swans, sentence 33

She was afraid to lie down on one, so she crept under one of them, lay on the hard floor, and was going to spend the night there.

Who acts: maiden · What happens: be, lie down, creep, lay, go, spend · To what, where: hard floor

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Six Swans. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maiden), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 afraid	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 afraid	cop
3	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 lie	mark
5	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 afraid	xcomp
6	down	down	ADP	_	5 lie	compound:prt
7	on	on	ADP	_	8 one	case
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 lie	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 crept	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	12 crept	advmod
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 crept	nsubj
12	crept	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 afraid	conj
13	under	under	ADP	_	14 one	case
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 crept	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 them	case
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 one	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 lay	punct
18	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 crept	advcl
19	on	on	ADP	_	22 floor	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 floor	det
21	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 floor	amod
22	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 lay	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 going	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 going	cc
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 going	aux
26	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 crept	advcl
27	to	to	PART	_	28 spend	mark
28	spend	spend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 going	xcomp
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 night	det
30	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 spend	obj
31	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	28 spend	advmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 afraid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	maiden			afraid property	tree rules
2	lie down	to-infinitive	maiden not said here			on one	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on one=Location
3	creep	past	maiden			under one of beds	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under one=Trajectory
4	lay	present	maiden not said here	the hard floor			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on floor=Destination
5	go	past · progressive	maiden not said here				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	spend	to-infinitive	maiden not said here	there	night		vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: 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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