The Yellow Fairy Book, Prince Ring (30), sentence 154

‘This hand,’ said Ring, ‘came over the partition during the night, and was about to run me through in my bed, if I had not defended myself.’

Who acts: Ring, I · What happens: say, come, be, run, not defend · To what, where: partition, me, bed, myself · 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 (Ring, I), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	3 hand	punct
2	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 hand	det
3	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	ccomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 hand	punct
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 hand	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	Ring	Ring	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 came	punct
9	‘	'	PUNCT	_	10 came	punct
10	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 said	conj
11	over	over	ADP	_	13 partition	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 partition	det
13	partition	partition	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 came	obl
14	during	during	ADP	_	16 night	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 night	det
16	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 came	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 about	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 about	cc
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 about	cop
20	about	about	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 came	conj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 run	mark
22	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 about	xcomp
23	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 run	obj
24	through	through	ADP	_	27 bed	case
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 bed	case
26	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 bed	nmod:poss
27	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 run	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 defended	punct
29	if	if	SCONJ	_	33 defended	mark
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 defended	nsubj
31	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 defended	aux
32	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 defended	advmod
33	defended	defend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 came	advcl
34	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	33 defended	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
36	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Ring					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	come	past	Ring not said here		the partition	night		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme over partition=Initial_Location
3	is	past	Ring not said here				about property	tree rules
4	run	to-infinitive	Ring not said here	me	my bed			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent i=Theme through bed=Trajectory
5	not defend a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	I	myself				vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myself=Beneficiary

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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