The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 100

After dinner they lay down to rest.

Who acts: prince · What happens: lay down, rest

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince), 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 dinner	case
2	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lay	obl
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lay	nsubj
4	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	down	down	ADV	_	4 lay	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 rest	mark
7	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 lay	advcl
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lay down	present	prince				after dinner	down property	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	rest	to-infinitive	prince not said here						vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «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: «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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/2/100/