The Violet Fairy Book, The Boys With the Golden Stars, sentence 57

When the emperor was fast asleep, the bed began to crack loudly, and to the empress each crack had a meaning.

Who acts: emperor, asleep bed, crack · What happens: be, begin, crack, have · To what, where: meaning

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Boys With the Golden Stars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (emperor, asleep bed, crack), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	6 asleep	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 emperor	det
3	emperor	emperor	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 asleep	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 asleep	cop
5	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 asleep	advmod
6	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 bed	amod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 asleep	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bed	det
9	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 began	nsubj
10	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	to	to	PART	_	12 crack	mark
12	crack	crack	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 began	xcomp
13	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	12 crack	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 had	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 had	cc
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 empress	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 empress	det
18	empress	empress	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 had	obl
19	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	20 crack	det
20	crack	crack	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 had	nsubj
21	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 began	parataxis
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 meaning	det
23	meaning	meaning	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 had	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the emperor		asleep, fast property	tree rules
2	begin	past	the asleep bed			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	crack	to-infinitive	the asleep bed not said here		loudly property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	have	past	each crack	a meaning	to the empress	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meaning=Patient

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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