Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 1, sentence 152

So the little bed carried him to the room where she lay fast asleep.

Who acts: little bed, princess · What happens: carry, lie · To what, where: son, room

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little bed, princess), 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	So	so	ADV	_	5 carried	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bed	det
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bed	amod
4	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 carried	nsubj
5	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 carried	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 room	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 room	det
9	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 carried	obl
10	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	12 lay	advmod
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 lay	nsubj
12	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 carried	advcl
13	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 lay	advmod
14	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 lay	xcomp
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 carried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	past	the little bed	son		the room			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to room=Destination
2	lie	past	princess					asleep, fast property	vn assuming_position-50 «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: «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7128 (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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