The Green Fairy Book, The Three Snake-leaves, sentence 20

When the day arrived on which the corpse was to be laid in the royal vault, he was led thither, then the entrance was bolted and closed up.

Who acts: day · What happens: arrive, lay, lead, bolt, close up · To what, where: corpse, royal vault, King, entrance

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 (day), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	4 arrived	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 day	det
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 arrived	nsubj
4	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 led	advcl
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 which	case
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 laid	obl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 corpse	det
8	corpse	corpse	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 laid	nsubj:pass
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 laid	aux:pass
10	to	to	PART	_	12 laid	mark
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 laid	aux:pass
12	laid	lay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 arrived	conj
13	in	in	ADP	_	16 vault	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 vault	det
15	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 vault	amod
16	vault	vault	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 laid	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 arrived	punct
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 led	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 led	aux:pass
20	led	lead	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
21	thither	thither	ADV	_	20 led	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 bolted	punct
23	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 bolted	advmod
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 entrance	det
25	entrance	entrance	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 bolted	nsubj:pass
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 bolted	aux:pass
27	bolted	bolt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 led	conj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 closed	cc
29	closed	close	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 bolted	conj
30	up	up	ADP	_	29 closed	compound:prt
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 led	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	arrive	past	the day					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	lay	past · passive		the corpse	the royal vault			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on which=Destination
3	lead	past · passive		King			thither property	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	bolt	past · passive		the entrance		then		vn gobble-39.3-1 «NP V NP up»: subject=Patient
5	close up	participle						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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