The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 131
Rasmus chose to take the first watch, and the others lay down to sleep.
Who acts: Rasmus, others · What happens: choose, take, lay down, sleep · To what, where: first watch
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rasmus, others), 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 | Rasmus | Rasmus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 chose | nsubj |
| 2 | chose | choose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 take | mark |
| 4 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 chose | xcomp |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 watch | det |
| 6 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 watch | amod |
| 7 | watch | watch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 take | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 lay | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 lay | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 others | det |
| 11 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 lay | nsubj |
| 12 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 chose | parataxis |
| 13 | down | down | ADV | _ | 12 lay | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 sleep | mark |
| 15 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 lay | advcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 chose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | choose | past | Rasmus | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | take | to-infinitive | Rasmus not said here | the first watch | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent watch=Theme | ||||
| 3 | lay down | present | the others | down property | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | sleep | to-infinitive | the others not said here | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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