The Yellow Fairy Book, How to Tell a True Princess, sentence 13

But she said nothing, and went into the sleeping-room, took off all the bed-clothes, and laid a pea on the bottom of the bed.

Who acts: water · What happens: say, go, take off, lay · To what, where: nothing, sleeping room, bed clothes, pea, bottom · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How to Tell a True Princess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (water), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 said	cc
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 said	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 went	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 went	cc
7	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	conj
8	into	into	ADP	_	12 room	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 room	det
10	sleeping	sleeping	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 room	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 sleeping	punct
12	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 went	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 took	punct
14	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 went	conj
15	off	off	ADP	_	14 took	compound:prt
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 clothes	det:predet
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 clothes	det
18	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 clothes	compound
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 bed	punct
20	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	14 took	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 laid	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 laid	cc
23	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	conj
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 pea	det
25	pea	pea	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 laid	obj
26	on	on	ADP	_	28 bottom	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 bottom	det
28	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 laid	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 bed	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 bed	det
31	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 bottom	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	water	nothing		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic
2	go	past	water not said here		the sleeping room	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into room=Initial_Location
3	take off	past	water not said here	all bed clothes		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Theme
4	lay	past	water not said here	a pea	the bottom of the bed	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent pea=Theme on bottom=Destination

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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