More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 8, sentence 56

"Dear, dear," said he, "I'd better go and get dry in the sun." So up he went to the highroad, and lay down in the dust, rolling about so that the sun should get at him all over.

Who acts: rt, sun · What happens: say, go, get, lay down, roll about · To what, where: sun., highroad, dust · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rt, sun), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Dear	punct
2	Dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 said	ccomp
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 dear	punct
4	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Dear	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Dear	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Dear	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 go	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 he	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 go	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 go	nsubj
12	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 go	aux
13	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	14 go	advmod
14	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 get	cc
16	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 go	conj
17	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 get	xcomp
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 sun.	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 sun.	det
20	sun.	sun.	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 get	obl
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	25 went	punct
22	So	so	ADV	_	25 went	advmod
23	up	up	ADP	_	25 went	mark
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 went	nsubj
25	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 go	conj
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 highroad	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 highroad	det
28	highroad	highroad	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 went	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 lay	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 lay	cc
31	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 go	conj
32	down	down	ADV	_	31 lay	advmod
33	in	in	ADP	_	35 dust	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 dust	det
35	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 lay	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 rolling	punct
37	rolling	roll	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 lay	advcl
38	about	about	ADV	_	37 rolling	advmod
39	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	44 get	mark
40	that	that	SCONJ	_	39 so	fixed
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 sun	det
42	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 get	nsubj
43	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	44 get	aux
44	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 rolling	advcl
45	at	at	ADP	_	46 him	case
46	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 get	obl
47	all	all	ADV	_	48 over	advmod
48	over	over	ADV	_	44 get	advmod
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	go in a quote	would	rt		well property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	get in a quote	infinitive	rt not said here	the sun.	dry property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
4	go	past	rt	the highroad		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to highroad=Initial_Location
5	lay down	infinitive	rt not said here	the dust	down property	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in dust=Destination
6	roll about	gerund	rt not said here		about property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	get	should	the sun		at rt; over property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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