English Fairy Tales, The Golden Arm, sentence 9

The following night he put the golden arm under his pillow, and was just falling asleep, when the ghost of his dead wife glided into the room.

Who acts: husband · What happens: follow, put, fall, glide, ghost · To what, where: golden arm, pillow, ghost, room, dead wife

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Golden Arm. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husband), 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	3 night	det
2	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 night	amod
3	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 put	obl:unmarked
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 put	nsubj
5	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 arm	det
7	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 arm	amod
8	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 put	obj
9	under	under	ADP	_	11 pillow	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 pillow	nmod:poss
11	pillow	pillow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 put	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 falling	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 falling	cc
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 falling	aux
15	just	just	ADV	_	16 falling	advmod
16	falling	fall	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 put	advcl
17	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 falling	xcomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 glided	punct
19	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	26 glided	advmod
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 ghost	det
21	ghost	ghost	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 glided	nsubj:pass
22	of	of	ADP	_	25 wife	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 wife	nmod:poss
24	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 wife	amod
25	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 ghost	nmod
26	glided	glide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 falling	conj
27	into	into	ADP	_	29 room	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 room	det
29	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 glided	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund						vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	put	past	husband	the golden arm	husband's pillow	night		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent arm=Theme under pillow=Destination
3	fall	past · progressive	husband not said here				asleep property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	glide	participle · passive		the ghost of husband's dead wife	the room			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme into room=Trajectory
5	ghost			husband's dead wife				nom ghost «cognition transitive»: of=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: «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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