The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 81
The youth was now shown into another room, containing a silken bed with down cushions, where he slept delightfully, yet he seemed to hear a voice near his bed which repeated to him, ‘Remember to give no blood!’
Who acts: foot, bed · What happens: show, contain, sleep, seem, hear, repeat · To what, where: youth, room, silken bed, voice, bed, foot
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon of the North(2). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (foot, bed), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 youth | det |
| 2 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 shown | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 shown | aux:pass |
| 4 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 shown | advmod |
| 5 | shown | show | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 room | case |
| 7 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 room | det |
| 8 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 shown | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 containing | punct |
| 10 | containing | contain | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 shown | advcl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 bed | det |
| 12 | silken | silken | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 bed | amod |
| 13 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 containing | obj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 cushions | case |
| 15 | down | down | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 cushions | amod |
| 16 | cushions | cushion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 containing | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 slept | punct |
| 18 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 20 slept | advmod |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 slept | nsubj |
| 20 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 cushions | acl:relcl |
| 21 | delightfully | delightfully | ADV | _ | 20 slept | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 seemed | punct |
| 23 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 25 seemed | cc |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 seemed | nsubj |
| 25 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 shown | parataxis |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 hear | mark |
| 27 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 seemed | xcomp |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 voice | det |
| 29 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 hear | obj |
| 30 | near | near | ADP | _ | 32 bed | case |
| 31 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 bed | nmod:poss |
| 32 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 hear | obl |
| 33 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 34 repeated | nsubj |
| 34 | repeated | repeat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 bed | acl:relcl |
| 35 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 him | case |
| 36 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 repeated | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 Remember | punct |
| 38 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 39 Remember | punct |
| 39 | Remember | remember | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 seemed | conj |
| 40 | to | to | PART | _ | 41 give | mark |
| 41 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 Remember | xcomp |
| 42 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 43 blood | det |
| 43 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 give | obj |
| 44 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 shown | punct |
| 45 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 shown | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | past · passive | the youth | another room | now | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Patient into room=Recipient | |||
| 2 | contain | gerund | a silken bed | with down cushions | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot bed=Theme | ||||
| 3 | sleep | past | foot | delightfully property | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | seem | past | foot | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 5 | hear | to-infinitive | foot not said here | a voice | foot's bed | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus | |||
| 6 | repeat | past | foot's bed | foot | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 7 | remember | infinitive | foot not said here | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 8 | give | to-infinitive | foot not said here | no blood | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blood=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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