Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Maximilian and the Goose Boy., sentence 4

The king lay down on the soft grass, and looked up at the white clouds sailing across the sky.

Who acts: king, white clouds · What happens: lie down, look up, sail · To what, where: soft grass, sky

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Maximilian and the Goose Boy.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, white clouds), 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	2 king	det
2	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lay	nsubj
3	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	down	down	ADV	_	3 lay	advmod
5	on	on	ADP	_	8 grass	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 grass	det
7	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 grass	amod
8	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lay	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 looked	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 looked	cc
11	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lay	conj
12	up	up	ADP	_	11 looked	compound:prt
13	at	at	ADP	_	16 clouds	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 clouds	det
15	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 clouds	amod
16	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 looked	obl
17	sailing	sail	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 clouds	acl
18	across	across	ADP	_	20 sky	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 sky	det
20	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sailing	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	lie down	past	the king	the soft grass	down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on grass=Location
2	look up	past	the king not said here		at the white clouds	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at cloud=Theme
3	sail	gerund	the white clouds not said here	the sky		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent across sky=Trajectory

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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