The Yellow Fairy Book, The Iron Stove(7), sentence 60

Then they gave her food and drink, and led her to a beautifully made bed of silk and samite, on which she lay down and slept soundly.

Who acts: toads, leg · What happens: give, lead, make, lie down, sleep · To what, where: food, leg, made bed

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Iron Stove(7). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (toads, leg), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 gave	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 gave	nsubj
3	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 gave	iobj
5	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gave	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 drink	cc
7	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 food	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 led	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 led	cc
10	led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 gave	conj
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 led	obj
12	to	to	ADP	_	16 bed	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 bed	det
14	beautifully	beautifully	ADV	_	15 made	advmod
15	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 bed	amod
16	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 led	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 silk	case
18	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 bed	nmod
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 samite	cc
20	samite	samite	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 bed	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 lay	punct
22	on	on	ADP	_	23 which	case
23	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 lay	obl
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 lay	nsubj
25	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 led	parataxis
26	down	down	ADV	_	25 lay	advmod
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 slept	cc
28	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 lay	conj
29	soundly	soundly	ADV	_	28 slept	advmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	toads = toad	food and drink	leg		then		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient food=Theme
2	lead	past	toads = toad not said here	leg		a made bed of silk and samite			vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to bed=Destination
3	make	participle						beautifully property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
4	lie down	past	leg					down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on which=Location
5	sleep	past	leg not said here					soundly property	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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