The Green Fairy Book, The Crystal Coffin, sentence 75

‘I would not say a word more than I had done previously, and he vanished, leaving me in my prison, where a deep sleep soon fell on me.

Who acts: I, Magician, deep sleep · What happens: not say, do, vanish, leave, fall · To what, where: word, me, prison · 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 (I, Magician, deep sleep), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 say	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 say	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 say	advmod
5	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 word	det
7	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 say	obj
8	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 say	obj
9	than	than	SCONJ	_	12 done	mark
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 done	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 done	aux
12	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 more	advcl
13	previously	previously	ADV	_	12 done	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 vanished	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 vanished	cc
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 vanished	nsubj
17	vanished	vanish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 say	advcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 leaving	punct
19	leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 vanished	advcl
20	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 leaving	obj
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 prison	case
22	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 prison	nmod:poss
23	prison	prison	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 leaving	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 fell	punct
25	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	30 fell	advmod
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 sleep	det
27	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 sleep	amod
28	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 fell	nsubj
29	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	30 fell	advmod
30	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 prison	acl:relcl
31	on	on	ADP	_	32 me	case
32	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 fell	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not say speech: assert	would	I	a word			vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme more=Manner
2	do	past · perfect	I			previously property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	vanish	past	Magician				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	leave	gerund	Magician not said here	me	my prison		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent i=Theme in prison=Location
5	fall	past	a deep sleep			on me; soon property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on i=Location

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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