Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elfin Hill, sentence 108

Then they took off their coats, and lay down on the table to sleep; for they made themselves quite at home.

Who acts: youngsters · What happens: take off, lay down, sleep, make · To what, where: coats, table, youngsters, home

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Elfin Hill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youngsters), 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	3 took	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 took	nsubj
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	off	off	ADP	_	3 took	compound:prt
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 coats	nmod:poss
6	coats	coat	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 took	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 lay	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 lay	cc
9	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 took	advcl
10	down	down	ADV	_	9 lay	advmod
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 table	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 table	det
13	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lay	obl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 sleep	mark
15	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 lay	advcl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 made	punct
17	for	for	SCONJ	_	19 made	mark
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 made	nsubj
19	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
20	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	19 made	obj
21	quite	quite	ADV	_	19 made	advmod
22	at	at	ADP	_	23 home	case
23	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 made	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take off	past	youngsters = youngster	youngsters's coats		then		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coat=Theme
2	lay down	infinitive	youngsters = youngster not said here		the table		down property	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on table=Destination
3	sleep	to-infinitive	youngsters = youngster not said here					vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	make	past	youngsters = youngster	youngsters = youngster	home			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset themselves=Product

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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