The Green Fairy Book, The Three Snake-leaves, sentence 18

And when she lay dead, the young King remembered what he had promised, and it made him shudder to think of lying in her grave alive, but there was no escape.

Who acts: doctor, young King, King, wedding, escape · What happens: lie, remember, promise, make, think, be · To what, where: shudder, King, grave alive

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Snake-leaves. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (doctor, young King, King, wedding), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	10 remembered	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 lay	advmod
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lay	nsubj
4	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 remembered	advcl
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 lay	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 lay	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 King	det
8	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 King	amod
9	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 remembered	nsubj
10	remembered	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 remembered	obj
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 promised	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 promised	aux
14	promised	promise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 what	acl:relcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 made	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 made	cc
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 made	nsubj
18	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 remembered	conj
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 made	obj
20	shudder	shudder	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 made	obj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 think	mark
22	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 shudder	acl
23	of	of	SCONJ	_	24 lying	mark
24	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 think	advcl
25	in	in	ADP	_	28 alive	case
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 alive	nmod:poss
27	grave	grave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 alive	amod
28	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 lying	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 was	punct
30	but	but	CCONJ	_	32 was	cc
31	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	32 was	expl
32	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 remembered	parataxis
33	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	34 escape	det
34	escape	escape	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 was	nsubj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 remembered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	lie	past	doctor				dead property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	remember	past	the young King					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent what=Theme
3	promise speech: promise	past · perfect	King					vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	make	past	wedding	shudder	King			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset he=Beneficiary shudder=Product
5	think speech: other	to-infinitive	wedding not said here	shudder not said here				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	lie	gerund	wedding not said here			doctor's grave alive		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in alive=Location
7	be	past	no escape			there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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