The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 3, sentence 130

Helena was comforted and lay down, and before you would have believed it possible the Fairy roused her gently and told her the pond was empty.

Who acts: Fairy, pond · What happens: comfort, lay down, believe, rouse, tell, be · To what, where: Helena, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fairy, pond), 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	Helena	Helena	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 comforted	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 comforted	aux:pass
3	comforted	comfort	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 lay	cc
5	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 comforted	conj
6	down	down	ADV	_	5 lay	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 believed	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 believed	cc
9	before	before	SCONJ	_	13 believed	mark
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 believed	nsubj:pass
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 believed	aux
12	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 believed	aux
13	believed	believe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 comforted	advcl
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 believed	obj
15	possible	possible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 believed	xcomp
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Fairy	det
17	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 roused	nsubj
18	roused	rouse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 comforted	parataxis
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 gently	nmod:poss
20	gently	gently	ADV	_	18 roused	advmod
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 told	cc
22	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 roused	conj
23	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 told	iobj
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 pond	det
25	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 empty	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 empty	cop
27	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 told	ccomp
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 comforted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	comfort	past · passive		Helena			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
2	lay down	infinitive				down property	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	believe	would · perfect · passive		you		possible property	vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme it=Eventuality
4	rouse	past	the Fairy			gently property	vn stimulate-59.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	tell speech: assert	past	the Fairy not said here		HELENA		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
6	is	past	the pond			empty 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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