Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Portuguese Duck, sentence 74

Then they all lay down to have a nap.

Who acts: fowls · What happens: lay down, have · To what, where: nap

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 (fowls), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 lay	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lay	nsubj
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 lay	advmod
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 have	mark
7	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 lay	advcl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 nap	det
9	nap	nap	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 have	obj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lay down	present	fowls = fowl				then	down property	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	have	to-infinitive	fowls = fowl not said here	a nap					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nap=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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