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The Yellow Fairy Book, The Nightingale, sentence 148

Cold and pale lay the Emperor in his splendid great bed; the whole Court believed him dead, and one after the other left him to pay their respects to the new Emperor.

Who acts: Cold, whole Court, one, Emperor · What happens: lay, believe, leave, pay · To what, where: Emperor, splendid great bed, respects

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nightingale. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cold, whole Court, one, Emperor), 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

nsubjccconjdetobjcasenmod:possamodamodoblpunctdetamodnsubjadvclobjxcomppunctccnsubjcasedetnmodconjobjmarkxcompnmod:possobjcasedetamodoblpunctrootColdADJandCCONJpaleADJlayVERBtheDETEmperorPROPNinADPhisPRONsplendidADJgreatADJbedNOUN;PUNCTtheDETwholeADJCourtPROPNbelievedVERBhimPRONdeadADJ,PUNCTandCCONJoneNUMafterADPtheDETotherADJleftVERBhimPRONtoPARTpayVERBtheirPRONrespectsNOUNtoADPtheDETnewADJEmperorPROPN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ColdcoldADJDegree=Pos4 laynsubj
2andandCCONJ_3 palecc
3palepaleADJDegree=Pos1 Coldconj
4laylayVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
5thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art6 Emperordet
6EmperorEmperorPROPNNumber=Sing4 layobj
7ininADP_11 bedcase
8hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs11 bednmod:poss
9splendidsplendidADJDegree=Pos11 bedamod
10greatgreatADJDegree=Pos11 bedamod
11bedbedNOUNNumber=Sing4 layobl
12;;PUNCT_16 believedpunct
13thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art15 Courtdet
14wholewholeADJDegree=Pos15 Courtamod
15CourtCourtPROPNNumber=Sing16 believednsubj
16believedbelieveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 layadvcl
17himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs16 believedobj
18deaddeadADJDegree=Pos16 believedxcomp
19,,PUNCT_25 leftpunct
20andandCCONJ_25 leftcc
21oneoneNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card25 leftnsubj
22afterafterADP_24 othercase
23thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art24 otherdet
24otherotherADJDegree=Pos21 onenmod
25leftleaveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin16 believedconj
26himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs25 leftobj
27totoPART_28 paymark
28paypayVERBVerbForm=Inf25 leftxcomp
29theirtheirPRONCase=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs30 respectsnmod:poss
30respectsrespectsNOUNNumber=Plur28 payobj
31totoADP_34 Emperorcase
32thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art34 Emperordet
33newnewADJDegree=Pos34 Emperoramod
34EmperorEmperorPROPNNumber=Sing28 payobl
35..PUNCT_4 laypunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1laypresentColdthe EmperorEmperor's splendid great bedvn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent emperor=Theme in bed=Destination
2believepastthe whole CourtEmperordead propertyvn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
3leavepastone after the otherEmperortree rules
4payto-infinitiveEmperor not said herepeople's respectsto the new Emperorvn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent respects=Asset

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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