The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 150

There she lay the whole night, while he sat in the corner and slept on a chair, which he had often done before.

Who acts: grandmother, Klaus · What happens: lie, sit, sleep, do · To what, where: corner, chair

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (grandmother, Klaus), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 lay	expl
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 lay	nsubj
3	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 night	det
5	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 night	amod
6	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lay	obl:unmarked
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 sat	punct
8	while	while	SCONJ	_	10 sat	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 sat	nsubj
10	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lay	advcl
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 corner	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 corner	det
13	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sat	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 slept	cc
15	slept	sleep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 sat	conj
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 chair	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 chair	det
18	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 slept	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 done	punct
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 done	obj
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 done	nsubj
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 done	aux
23	often	often	ADV	_	24 done	advmod
24	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 chair	acl:relcl
25	before	before	ADV	_	24 done	advmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	past	grandmother		there	night		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	sit	past	Klaus		the corner			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in corner=Location
3	sleep	participle	Klaus not said here		a chair			vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	do	past · perfect	Klaus	a chair			before, often property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Eventuality

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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