More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 9, sentence 5

Well, the day was hot, and after dinner the giant lay down in the mill with his head on a sack and dozed.

Who acts: day, giant · What happens: be, lie down, doze · To what, where: mill

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (day, giant), 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	Well	well	INTJ	_	6 hot	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Well	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 day	det
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hot	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 hot	cop
6	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 lay	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 lay	cc
9	after	after	ADP	_	10 dinner	case
10	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lay	obl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 giant	det
12	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lay	nsubj
13	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 hot	parataxis
14	down	down	ADV	_	13 lay	advmod
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 mill	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 mill	det
17	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lay	obl
18	with	with	ADP	_	20 head	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 head	nmod:poss
20	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 mill	nmod
21	on	on	ADP	_	23 sack	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 sack	det
23	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lay	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 dozed	cc
25	dozed	doze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 lay	conj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 hot	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the day			hot property	tree rules
2	lie down	past	the giant	the mill with giant's head	after dinner	on a sack; down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in mill=Location
3	doze	past	the giant not said here				vn snooze-40.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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