The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 9
Then he and his mother ransacked the place for some food, and when they had eaten it they lay down and slept in peace.
Who acts: prince, bodies · What happens: ransack, eat, lay down, sleep · To what, where: place, peace
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, bodies), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 ransacked | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 ransacked | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 mother | cc |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 mother | nmod:poss |
| 5 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 he | conj |
| 6 | ransacked | ransack | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 place | det |
| 8 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ransacked | obj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 food | case |
| 10 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 food | det |
| 11 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 place | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 lay | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 lay | cc |
| 14 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 17 eaten | mark |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 eaten | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 eaten | aux |
| 17 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 lay | advcl |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 eaten | obj |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 lay | nsubj |
| 20 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 ransacked | advcl |
| 21 | down | down | ADV | _ | 20 lay | advmod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 slept | cc |
| 23 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 ransacked | conj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 peace | case |
| 25 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 slept | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 ransacked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ransack | past | prince | the place | then | for some food | vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent place=Location for food=Theme | ||
| 2 | eat | past · perfect | bodies = body | place | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 3 | lay down | present | bodies = body | down property | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | sleep | past | prince not said here | peace | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in peace=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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