The Yellow Fairy Book, Prince Ring (30), sentence 153
The King went with him to his sleeping-room, and saw lying on the bed a man’s hand holding a sword.
Who acts: King, hand · What happens: go, see, lie, hold · To what, where: sleeping room, bed, sword · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Ring (30). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, hand), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 him | case |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | obl |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 room | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 room | nmod:poss |
| 8 | sleeping | sleeping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 room | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 sleeping | punct |
| 10 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 saw | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 saw | cc |
| 13 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 14 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 hand | csubj |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 bed | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 bed | det |
| 17 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lying | obl |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 man | det |
| 19 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 hand | nmod:poss |
| 20 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 19 man | case |
| 21 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 saw | ccomp |
| 22 | holding | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 hand | acl |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 sword | det |
| 24 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 holding | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the King | Ring's sleeping room | with Ring | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to room=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | see | past | the King not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | lie | gerund | the bed | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bed=Location | |||||
| 4 | hold | gerund | a man's hand not said here | a sword | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=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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