English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 24

Then, getting out of bed, he laid a billet in the bed in his stead, and hid himself in a corner of the room.

Who acts: Say'st · What happens: get out, lay, hide · To what, where: bed, billet, Say'st, corner

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack the Giant-killer. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Say'st), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 laid	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Then	punct
3	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 laid	advcl
4	out	out	ADP	_	6 bed	case
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 bed	case
6	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 getting	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 getting	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 laid	nsubj
9	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 billet	det
11	billet	billet	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 laid	obj
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 bed	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 bed	det
14	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 laid	obl
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 stead	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 stead	nmod:poss
17	stead	stead	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 laid	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 hid	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 hid	cc
20	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 laid	conj
21	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	20 hid	obj
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 corner	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 corner	det
24	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 hid	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 room	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 room	det
27	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 corner	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 laid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get out	gerund	Say'st not said here	bed				tree rules
2	lay	past	Say'st	a billet	the bed	then	in Say'st's stead	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent billet=Theme in bed=Destination
3	hide	past	Say'st not said here	Say'st	a corner of the room			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent himself=Patient in corner=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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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