Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, In the Uttermost Parts of the Sea, sentence 11

In one of the huts, two of the men laid themselves down to rest.

Who acts: one · What happens: lay down, rest · To what, where: two

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, In the Uttermost Parts of the Sea. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 one	case
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 laid	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 huts	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 huts	det
5	huts	hut	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 one	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 two	punct
7	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 laid	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 men	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 men	det
10	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 laid	nsubj
11	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	11 laid	obj
13	down	down	ADP	_	11 laid	compound:prt
14	to	to	PART	_	15 rest	mark
15	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 laid	advcl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 laid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lay down	past	one of the huts	two					vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Result
2	rest	to-infinitive	one of the huts not said here						vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «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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