The Green Fairy Book, The Three Musicians, sentence 53

The little grey man lifted the curtains from the bed and beckoned the youth to approach.

Who acts: little grey man · What happens: lift, beckon, approach · To what, where: curtains, bed, youth

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Musicians. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little grey man), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 man	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
3	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lifted	nsubj
5	lifted	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 curtains	det
7	curtains	curtain	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 lifted	obj
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 bed	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 bed	det
10	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lifted	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 beckoned	cc
12	beckoned	beckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 lifted	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 youth	det
14	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 beckoned	obj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 approach	mark
16	approach	approach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 beckoned	advcl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 lifted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	lift	past	the little grey man	the curtains	the bed	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent curtain=Theme from bed=Destination
2	beckon	past	the little grey man not said here	the youth		vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent youth=Patient
3	approach	to-infinitive	the little grey man not said here			vn escape-51.1-1 «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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