Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 3, sentence 6

The traveller then returned to the inn where John still slept, took off his wings and laid down on the bed, for he was very tired.

Who acts: traveller, John · What happens: return, sleep, take off, lay down, be · To what, where: wings, bed

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (traveller, John), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 traveller	det
2	traveller	traveller	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 returned	nsubj
3	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 returned	advmod
4	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 inn	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 inn	det
7	inn	inn	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 returned	obl
8	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	11 slept	advmod
9	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 slept	nsubj
10	still	still	ADV	_	11 slept	advmod
11	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 inn	acl:relcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 took	punct
13	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 returned	conj
14	off	off	ADP	_	13 took	compound:prt
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 wings	nmod:poss
16	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 took	obj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 laid	cc
18	laid	lay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 took	conj
19	down	down	ADP	_	18 laid	compound:prt
20	on	on	ADP	_	22 bed	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 bed	det
22	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 laid	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 tired	punct
24	for	for	ADP	_	28 tired	case
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 tired	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 tired	cop
27	very	very	ADV	_	28 tired	advmod
28	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 laid	parataxis
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 returned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	return	past	the traveller			then	to the inn result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to inn=Result
2	sleep	past	John			still		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	take off	past	the traveller not said here	traveller's wings				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Theme
4	lay down	participle	the traveller not said here		the bed			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on bed=Destination
5	is	past	traveller				tired 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: «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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