The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 90

As Michael, the cunning beast, had no desire to continue the conversation, he left the forest; but when he came to the high road he laid himself at full length on the ground, stretching himself out, just as if he was dead.

Who acts: Michael · What happens: have, continue, leave, come, lay, stretch out · To what, where: desire, conversation, forest, high road, Michael, full length

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Michael), 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	As	as	ADP	_	2 Michael	case
2	Michael	Michael	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 had	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 beast	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 beast	det
5	cunning	cunning	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 beast	amod
6	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Michael	appos
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Michael	punct
8	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 desire	det
10	desire	desire	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 had	obj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 continue	mark
12	continue	continue	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 desire	acl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 conversation	det
14	conversation	conversation	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 continue	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 left	punct
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 left	nsubj
17	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 had	conj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 forest	det
19	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 left	obj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 laid	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 laid	cc
22	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	24 came	advmod
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 came	nsubj
24	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 laid	advcl
25	to	to	ADP	_	28 road	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 road	det
27	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 road	amod
28	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 came	obl
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 laid	nsubj
30	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 had	conj
31	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	30 laid	obj
32	at	at	ADP	_	34 length	case
33	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 length	amod
34	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 laid	obl
35	on	on	ADP	_	37 ground	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 ground	det
37	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 length	nmod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 stretching	punct
39	stretching	stretch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 laid	advcl
40	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	39 stretching	obj
41	out	out	ADP	_	39 stretching	compound:prt
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 dead	punct
43	just	just	ADV	_	48 dead	advmod
44	as	as	SCONJ	_	48 dead	mark
45	if	if	SCONJ	_	48 dead	mark
46	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 dead	nsubj
47	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 dead	cop
48	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 stretching	conj
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past		no desire		as Michael	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent desire=Patient
2	continue	to-infinitive		the conversation			vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent conversation=Theme
3	leave	past	Michael	the forest			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent forest=Theme
4	come	past	Michael		the high road		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to road=Initial_Location
5	lay	past	Michael	Michael	full length on the ground		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent himself=Theme at length=Destination
6	stretch out	gerund	Michael not said here	Michael			vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent himself=Patient
7	is a condition, not said to happen	past	Michael			dead property	tree rules

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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