The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Lads, sentence 65

So he went to his son-in-law’s room, and who should he see lying in the bed but a splendid golden man, and the rough bearskin thrown on the ground close by.

Who acts: brother · What happens: go, see, lie, throw · To what, where: close, room, bed, rough bearskin, ground

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Lads. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brother), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	12 room	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 room	nmod:poss
6	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 room	nsubj
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 room	punct
8	in	in	ADP	_	12 room	case
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 in	punct
10	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 room	nmod:poss
11	’s	's	PART	_	10 law	case
12	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 see	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 see	cc
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 see	nsubj
16	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 see	aux
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 see	nsubj
18	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 went	conj
19	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 see	xcomp
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 bed	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 bed	det
22	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 lying	obl
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 man	cc
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 man	det
25	splendid	splendid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 man	amod
26	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 man	amod
27	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 bed	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 close	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 close	cc
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 bearskin	det
31	rough	rough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 bearskin	amod
32	bearskin	bearskin	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 close	nsubj
33	thrown	throw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 bearskin	acl
34	on	on	ADP	_	36 ground	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 ground	det
36	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 thrown	obl
37	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 went	obl
38	by	by	ADP	_	37 close	fixed
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	go	past	brother	close	brother's room	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to room=Initial_Location
2	see	should				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	lie	gerund			the bed but a splendid golden man	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in bed=Location
4	throw	participle		the rough bearskin not said here	the ground	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent on ground=Destination

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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