The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Hassebu, sentence 47

They entered the hall, but all stopped in surprise at finding a man lying on the king’s own bed.

Who acts: Snakes, man · What happens: enter, stop, find, lie · To what, where: hall, all, surprise, man, own bed

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Hassebu. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Snakes, man), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 entered	nsubj
2	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 hall	det
4	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 entered	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 stopped	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 stopped	cc
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 stopped	nsubj:pass
8	stopped	stop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 entered	conj
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 surprise	case
10	surprise	surprise	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stopped	obl
11	at	at	SCONJ	_	12 finding	mark
12	finding	find	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 stopped	advcl
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 man	det
14	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 finding	obj
15	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 man	acl
16	on	on	ADP	_	21 bed	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 king	det
18	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 bed	nmod:poss
19	’s	's	PART	_	18 king	case
20	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 bed	amod
21	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 lying	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 entered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	enter	past	Snakes = snake	the hall		vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hall=Destination
2	stop	participle · passive		all	surprise	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality
3	find	gerund		a man		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Topic
4	lie	gerund	a man not said here		the king's own bed	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bed=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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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