Fifty Famous Stories Retold, King Alfred and the Beggar., sentence 13
When night came, the king lay awake for a long time, and thought about the things that had happened that day.
Who acts: night, king, things · What happens: come, lie, think, happen
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, King Alfred and the Beggar.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (night, king, things), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 lay | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 king | det |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lay | nsubj |
| 7 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | awake | awake | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 lay | xcomp |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 time | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 time | det |
| 11 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 time | amod |
| 12 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lay | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 thought | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 thought | cc |
| 15 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 lay | advcl |
| 16 | about | about | ADP | _ | 18 things | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 things | det |
| 18 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 thought | obl |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 happened | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 happened | aux |
| 21 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 things | acl:relcl |
| 22 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 day | det |
| 23 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 happened | obl:unmarked |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | night | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | lie | past | the king | time | awake property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | the king not said here | about the things | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about thing=Topic | ||||
| 4 | happen | past · perfect | the things | day | vn occur-48.3-1 «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: «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (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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