The Yellow Fairy Book, Prince Ring (30), sentence 16

As he was thus bending down into it the woman suddenly rose up and pushed him in head first, saying that now he could take up his quarters there.

Who acts: Prince, woman · What happens: bend down, rise up, push, say, take up · To what, where: barrel, Prince, head, quarters · 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 (Prince, woman), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	5 bending	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 bending	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 bending	aux
4	thus	thus	ADV	_	5 bending	advmod
5	bending	bend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 rose	advcl
6	down	down	ADV	_	5 bending	advmod
7	into	into	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 bending	obl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 woman	det
10	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 rose	nsubj
11	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	12 rose	advmod
12	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	up	up	ADP	_	12 rose	compound:prt
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 pushed	cc
15	pushed	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 rose	conj
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 pushed	obj
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 head	case
18	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 pushed	obl
19	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	15 pushed	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 saying	punct
21	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 pushed	advcl
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 take	mark
23	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	26 take	advmod
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 take	nsubj
25	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 take	aux
26	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 saying	ccomp
27	up	up	ADP	_	26 take	compound:prt
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 quarters	nmod:poss
29	quarters	quarter	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 take	obj
30	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	26 take	advmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 rose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bend down	past · progressive	Prince		barrel		down, thus property	vn knead-26.5 «NP.material V PP.product»: agent=Material into it=Product
2	rise up	past	the woman				suddenly property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	push	past	the woman not said here	Prince	head		first property	vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent he=Theme in head=Trajectory
4	say speech: assert	gerund	the woman not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	take up	could	Prince	Prince's quarters	there	now		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quarter=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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