The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 8
After that he stretched himself out on the soft moss and went to sleep.
Who acts: mind · What happens: stretch out, go · To what, where: mind, soft moss, sleep
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mind), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 2 that | case |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 stretched | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 stretched | nsubj |
| 4 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 stretched | obj |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 stretched | compound:prt |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 moss | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 moss | det |
| 9 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 moss | amod |
| 10 | moss | moss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stretched | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 went | cc |
| 12 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stretched | conj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 sleep | case |
| 14 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 went | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stretched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stretch out | past | mind | mind | the soft moss | after that | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent himself=Patient | ||
| 2 | go | past | mind not said here | sleep | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to sleep=Initial_Location |
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: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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