The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 1, sentence 4

So they hung feather-beds between the tapestry and the walls, and then he could go on knocking his head as long as it was any consolation to him without coming to much harm.

Who acts: courtiers, King, head · What happens: hang, go, knock, be, come · To what, where: feather beds, tapestry, head, King, much harm

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, 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 (courtiers, King, head), 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	_	3 hung	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 hung	nsubj
3	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	feather	feather	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 beds	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 feather	punct
6	beds	bed	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hung	obj
7	between	between	ADP	_	9 tapestry	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 tapestry	det
9	tapestry	tapestry	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hung	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 walls	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 walls	det
12	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 tapestry	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 go	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 go	cc
15	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 go	advmod
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 go	nsubj
17	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 go	aux
18	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 hung	conj
19	on	on	SCONJ	_	20 knocking	mark
20	knocking	knock	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 go	advcl
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 head	nmod:poss
22	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 knocking	obj
23	as	as	ADV	_	24 long	advmod
24	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 consolation	amod
25	as	as	ADP	_	29 consolation	case
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 consolation	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 consolation	cop
28	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	29 consolation	det
29	consolation	consolation	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 knocking	obj
30	to	to	ADP	_	31 him	case
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 knocking	obl
32	without	without	SCONJ	_	33 coming	mark
33	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 go	advcl
34	to	to	ADP	_	36 harm	case
35	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 harm	amod
36	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 coming	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 hung	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hang	past	courtiers = courtier	feather beds		the tapestry and the walls			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bed=Theme between tapestry=Destination
2	go	could	King				then		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	knock	gerund	King not said here	King's head	King				vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent head=Theme to he=Destination
4	is	past	head					as any long consolation	tree rules
5	come	gerund	King not said here			much harm			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to harm=Initial_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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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