The Green Fairy Book, The Crystal Coffin, sentence 59

Wondering whence it could come, I was about to call to my maid who slept in the room next mine, when, to my surprise, I felt as if some heavy weight on my chest had taken all power from me, and I lay there unable to utter the slightest sound.

Who acts: sound, I, maid, my · What happens: wonder, come, be, call, sleep, feel · To what, where: maid, next, room, heavy weight, slightest sound · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (sound, I, maid, my), 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	Wondering	wonder	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 about	csubj
2	whence	whence	ADV	PronType=Int	5 come	advmod
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 come	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 come	aux
5	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Wondering	ccomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Wondering	punct
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 about	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 about	cop
9	about	about	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	to	to	PART	_	11 call	mark
11	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 about	xcomp
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 maid	case
13	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 maid	nmod:poss
14	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 call	obl
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 slept	nsubj
16	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 maid	acl:relcl
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 room	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 room	det
19	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 slept	obl
20	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 slept	obl
21	mine	my	PRON	Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 next	nsubj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 when	punct
23	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 call	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 surprise	punct
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 surprise	case
26	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 surprise	nmod:poss
27	surprise	surprise	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 call	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 felt	punct
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 felt	nsubj
30	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 about	conj
31	as	as	SCONJ	_	40 taken	mark
32	if	if	SCONJ	_	40 taken	mark
33	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	35 weight	det
34	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 weight	amod
35	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 taken	nsubj:pass
36	on	on	ADP	_	38 chest	case
37	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 chest	nmod:poss
38	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 weight	nmod
39	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 taken	aux
40	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 felt	ccomp
41	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	42 power	det
42	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 taken	obj
43	from	from	ADP	_	44 me	case
44	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	40 taken	obl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 lay	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 lay	cc
47	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	48 lay	nsubj
48	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 about	parataxis
49	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	48 lay	advmod
50	unable	unable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 lay	xcomp
51	to	to	PART	_	52 utter	mark
52	utter	utter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	50 unable	xcomp
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 sound	det
54	slightest	slight	ADJ	Degree=Sup	55 sound	amod
55	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 utter	obj
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 about	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	wonder speech: ask	gerund						vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	come	could	sound				whence property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	past	I				about property	tree rules
4	call	to-infinitive	I not said here		my maid		to my surprise	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to maid=Recipient
5	sleep	past	my maid	next		the room		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in room=Location
6	feel	past	I					vn see-30.1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
7	take a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect · passive		some heavy weight on my chest			from me	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme power=Destination
8	lie	past	I			there	unable property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	utter speech: other	to-infinitive	I not said here	the slightest sound				vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent sound=Topic
10	surprise		my					nom surprise «feeling transitive»: poss=agent

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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