The Yellow Fairy Book, Prince Ring (30), sentence 158

During the night he heard a howling and outcry beside them, struck a light in a hurry and saw an ugly dog’s skin lying near him, and a beautiful Prince in the bed.

Who acts: Ring, skin · What happens: hear, strike, see, lie · To what, where: howling, light, hurry, skin

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, skin), 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	During	during	ADP	_	3 night	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 night	det
3	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 heard	obl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 heard	nsubj
5	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 howling	det
7	howling	howling	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 heard	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 outcry	cc
9	outcry	outcry	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 howling	conj
10	beside	beside	ADP	_	11 them	case
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 outcry	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 struck	punct
13	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 heard	conj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 light	det
15	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 struck	obj
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 hurry	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 hurry	det
18	hurry	hurry	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 struck	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 saw	cc
20	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 struck	conj
21	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 dog	det
22	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 dog	amod
23	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 skin	nmod:poss
24	’s	's	PART	_	23 dog	case
25	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 saw	obj
26	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 skin	acl
27	near	near	ADP	_	28 him	case
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 lying	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 Prince	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 Prince	cc
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 Prince	det
32	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 Prince	amod
33	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 heard	obl
34	in	in	ADP	_	36 bed	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 bed	det
36	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 Prince	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past	Ring	a howling and outcry beside King		night	a beautiful Prince in the bed obl	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer howling=Stimulus
2	strike	past	Ring not said here	a light	a hurry			vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=Patient
3	see	past	Ring not said here	a ugly dog's skin				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer skin=Stimulus
4	lie	gerund	a ugly dog's skin not said here				near Ring	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent near he=Location

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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