The Violet Fairy Book, Mogarzea and His Son, sentence 7

The boy hesitated for a moment what he should do; then he crept close up to the man, and lay down by his legs.

Who acts: boy · What happens: hesitate, do, creep, close up, lay down · To what, where: boy, moment, man

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mogarzea and His Son. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy), 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 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 crept	nsubj
3	hesitated	hesitate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 boy	acl
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 moment	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 moment	det
6	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hesitated	obl
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 do	obj
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 do	nsubj
9	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 do	aux
10	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 moment	acl:relcl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 crept	punct
12	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 crept	advmod
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 crept	nsubj
14	crept	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	close	close	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 crept	xcomp
16	up	up	ADP	_	15 close	compound:prt
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 man	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 man	det
19	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 close	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 lay	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 lay	cc
22	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 crept	advcl
23	down	down	ADP	_	22 lay	compound:prt
24	by	by	ADP	_	26 legs	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 legs	nmod:poss
26	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 lay	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 crept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	hesitate	participle		the boy not said here		moment		vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
2	do	should	boy	a moment				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
3	creep	past	the boy			then		tree rules
4	close up	infinitive	the boy not said here		the man			vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to man=Recipient
5	lay down	infinitive	the boy not said here				by man's legs	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by leg=Destination

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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