Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Portuguese Duck, sentence 63

But now I shall lie down and have a little rest.

Who acts: I · What happens: lie down, have · To what, where: little rest

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Portuguese Duck. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 lie	cc
2	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 lie	advmod
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 lie	nsubj
4	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 lie	aux
5	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	down	down	ADP	_	5 lie	compound:prt
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 have	cc
8	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 lie	conj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 rest	det
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 rest	amod
11	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 have	obj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 lie	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie down	shall	I				now		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	have	present	I not said here	a little rest					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rest=Patient

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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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