The Green Fairy Book, The Crystal Coffin, sentence 57

We rose late from table, and whilst my brother was showing our guest to his room I hurried to mine, for I was very tired and longed to get to bed.

Who acts: We, brother, I · What happens: rise, show, hurry, be, long, get · To what, where: table, guest, room, mine

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 (We, brother, I), 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	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 rose	nsubj
2	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	late	late	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 rose	advmod
4	from	from	ADP	_	5 table	case
5	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rose	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 showing	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 showing	cc
8	whilst	whilst	SCONJ	_	12 showing	mark
9	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 brother	nmod:poss
10	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 showing	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 showing	aux
12	showing	show	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 rose	advcl
13	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 guest	nmod:poss
14	guest	guest	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 showing	obj
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 room	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 room	nmod:poss
17	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 showing	obl
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 hurried	nsubj
19	hurried	hurry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 room	acl:relcl
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 mine	case
21	mine	my	PRON	Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 hurried	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 tired	punct
23	for	for	ADP	_	27 tired	case
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 tired	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 tired	cop
26	very	very	ADV	_	27 tired	advmod
27	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 rose	parataxis
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 longed	cc
29	longed	long	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 rose	conj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 get	mark
31	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 longed	xcomp
32	to	to	ADP	_	33 bed	case
33	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 get	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 rose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	rise	past	We			table	late property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from table=Initial_Location
2	show	past · progressive	my brother	our guest	brother's room			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent guest=Topic to room=Recipient
3	hurry	past	I	brother's room not said here	mine			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent room=Theme to my=Trajectory
4	is	past	I				tired property	tree rules
5	long	past	We not said here					vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6	get not said to happen	to-infinitive	We not said here				to bed result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to bed=Result

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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