The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 2, sentence 82
Then two servants led Prince Milan to a beautiful apartment, and he lay down fearlessly on the soft bed that had been prepared for him, and was soon fast asleep.
Who acts: two servants, Milan · What happens: lead, lie down, prepare, be · To what, where: Prince Milan, beautiful apartment, soft bed
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two servants, Milan), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 led | advmod |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 servants | nummod |
| 3 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 led | nsubj |
| 4 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Milan | compound |
| 6 | Milan | Milan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 led | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 apartment | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 apartment | det |
| 9 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 apartment | amod |
| 10 | apartment | apartment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 led | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 lay | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 lay | cc |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 lay | nsubj |
| 14 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 led | parataxis |
| 15 | down | down | ADV | _ | 14 lay | advmod |
| 16 | fearlessly | fearlessly | ADV | _ | 14 lay | advmod |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 bed | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 bed | det |
| 19 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 bed | amod |
| 20 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lay | obl |
| 21 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 prepared | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 prepared | aux |
| 23 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 24 prepared | aux:pass |
| 24 | prepared | prepare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 bed | acl:relcl |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 him | case |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 prepared | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 asleep | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 asleep | cc |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 asleep | cop |
| 30 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 32 asleep | advmod |
| 31 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 32 asleep | advmod |
| 32 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 lay | advcl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 led | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | past | two servants | Prince Milan | a beautiful apartment | then | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent milan=Theme to apartment=Destination | ||
| 2 | lie down | past | Milan | the soft bed | down, fearlessly property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bed=Location | |||
| 3 | prepare | past · perfect · passive | the soft bed | for Milan | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Product for he=Beneficiary | ||||
| 4 | is | past | Milan not said here | asleep, fast, soon 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 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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