Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Portuguese Duck, sentence 65
So she laid herself down in the sun and winked with one eye; she had a very comfortable place, and felt so comfortable that she fell asleep.
Who acts: few · What happens: lay down, wink, have, feel, fall · To what, where: few, sun, comfortable place
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 (few), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 laid | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 laid | nsubj |
| 3 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 laid | obj |
| 5 | down | down | ADP | _ | 3 laid | compound:prt |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 sun | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sun | det |
| 8 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 laid | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 winked | cc |
| 10 | winked | wink | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 sun | conj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 eye | case |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 eye | nummod |
| 13 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 winked | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 had | punct |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 had | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 laid | conj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 place | det |
| 18 | very | very | ADV | _ | 19 comfortable | advmod |
| 19 | comfortable | comfortable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 place | amod |
| 20 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 had | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 felt | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 felt | cc |
| 23 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 laid | conj |
| 24 | so | so | ADV | _ | 25 comfortable | advmod |
| 25 | comfortable | comfortable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 felt | xcomp |
| 26 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 fell | mark |
| 27 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 fell | nsubj |
| 28 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 comfortable | advcl |
| 29 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 fell | xcomp |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 laid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay down | past | few | few | the sun | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent herself=Theme in sun=Destination | |||
| 2 | wink | participle | few not said here | with one eye | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | have | past | few | a comfortable place | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Patient | ||||
| 4 | feel | past | few not said here | comfortable property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | fall | past | few | asleep property | vn occur-48.3 «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: «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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