The Yellow Fairy Book, The Blue Mountains, sentence 8

He thought there was nothing for it but to die after all, and had lain down beside the wall, when he heard a window being opened high above him.

Who acts: Irishman, nothing · What happens: think, be, die, lie down, hear, open · To what, where: wall, window · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Mountains. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Irishman, nothing), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 was	expl
4	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 thought	ccomp
5	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 was	nsubj
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 nothing	nmod
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 die	cc
9	to	to	PART	_	10 die	mark
10	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 thought	conj
11	after	after	ADP	_	12 all	case
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 die	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 lain	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 lain	cc
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 lain	aux
16	lain	lie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 thought	conj
17	down	down	ADP	_	16 lain	compound:prt
18	beside	beside	ADP	_	20 wall	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 wall	det
20	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 lain	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 heard	punct
22	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	24 heard	advmod
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 heard	nsubj
24	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 thought	parataxis
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 window	det
26	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 heard	obj
27	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 opened	aux:pass
28	opened	open	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 heard	ccomp
29	high	high	ADV	Degree=Pos	28 opened	advmod
30	above	above	ADP	_	31 him	case
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 opened	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	Irishman					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	be	past	nothing		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	die	to-infinitive	Irishman not said here			after all		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	lie down	past · perfect	Irishman not said here		the wall			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside wall=Location
5	hear	past	Irishman	a window				tree rules
6	open	gerund · passive					above Irishman; high property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: above 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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