The Violet Fairy Book, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale), sentence 22

Now, one of the robbers was not really killed, only badly wounded, but he lay quite still and pretended to be dead like the others.

Who acts: fox · What happens: not kill, lie, pretend, be · To what, where: one

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fox), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 one	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Now	punct
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 killed	nsubj:pass
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 robbers	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 robbers	det
6	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 one	nmod
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 killed	aux:pass
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 killed	advmod
9	really	really	ADV	_	10 killed	advmod
10	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 wounded	punct
12	only	only	ADV	_	14 wounded	advmod
13	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 wounded	advmod
14	wounded	wounded	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 killed	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 lay	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 lay	cc
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 lay	nsubj
18	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 killed	parataxis
19	quite	quite	ADV	_	20 still	advmod
20	still	still	ADV	_	18 lay	advmod
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 pretended	cc
22	pretended	pretend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 lay	conj
23	to	to	PART	_	25 dead	mark
24	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 dead	cop
25	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 pretended	advcl
26	like	like	ADP	_	28 others	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 others	det
28	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 dead	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 killed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not kill	past · passive		one of the robbers			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	lie	past	fox		still		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	pretend	past	fox not said here				tree rules
4	is	to-infinitive	fox not said here			like the others; dead property	tree rules

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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