The Green Fairy Book, The Crystal Coffin, sentence 31

He gazed about, full of wonder, and was just preparing to walk out again when the same voice bade him: ‘Tread on the stone in the middle of the hall, and good luck will attend you.’

Who acts: tailor, good luck · What happens: gaze, prepare, walk out, attend · To what, where: same voice bade, you

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crystal Coffin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tailor, good luck), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gazed	nsubj
2	gazed	gaze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	about	about	ADV	_	2 gazed	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 full	punct
5	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 gazed	parataxis
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 wonder	case
7	wonder	wonder	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 full	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 preparing	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 preparing	cc
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 preparing	aux
11	just	just	ADV	_	12 preparing	advmod
12	preparing	prepare	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 gazed	advcl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 walk	mark
14	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 preparing	xcomp
15	out	out	ADV	_	14 walk	advmod
16	again	again	ADV	_	14 walk	advmod
17	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	21 bade	advmod
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 bade	det
19	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 bade	amod
20	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 bade	compound
21	bade	bade	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 walk	obl
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 bade	obj
23	:	:	PUNCT	_	25 Tread	punct
24	‘	'	PUNCT	_	25 Tread	punct
25	Tread	tread	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gazed	parataxis
26	on	on	ADP	_	28 stone	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 stone	det
28	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 Tread	nmod
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 middle	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 middle	det
31	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 stone	nmod
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 hall	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 hall	det
34	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 middle	nmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 attend	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 attend	cc
37	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 luck	amod
38	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 attend	nsubj
39	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 attend	aux
40	attend	attend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 gazed	parataxis
41	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	40 attend	obj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	40 attend	punct
43	’	'	PUNCT	_	40 attend	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	gaze	past	tailor				about property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
2	prepare	past · progressive	tailor not said here					vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute
3	walk out not said to happen	to-infinitive	tailor not said here	the same voice bade		again	out property	vn resign-10.11 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	attend	future	good luck		you			vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme you=Goal

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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