Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels, sentence 36
Soon after, he fell down upon an extensive lawn, and for a time pretended to sleep, but at last fell asleep in earnest.
Who acts: fact · What happens: fall down, pretend, sleep, fall · To what, where: extensive lawn, last
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fact), 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 | Soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 fell | advmod |
| 2 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 5 fell | mark |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 after | punct |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 fell | nsubj |
| 5 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | down | down | ADV | _ | 5 fell | advmod |
| 7 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 10 lawn | case |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 lawn | det |
| 9 | extensive | extensive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 lawn | amod |
| 10 | lawn | lawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fell | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 pretended | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 pretended | cc |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 time | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 time | det |
| 15 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 pretended | obl |
| 16 | pretended | pretend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 fell | conj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 sleep | mark |
| 18 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 pretended | xcomp |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 fell | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 fell | cc |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 last | case |
| 22 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 fell | obl |
| 23 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 fell | conj |
| 24 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 fell | xcomp |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 earnest | case |
| 26 | earnest | earn | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 23 fell | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall down | past | fact | a extensive lawn | down, soon property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon lawn=Location | |||
| 2 | pretend | participle | fact not said here | time | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | sleep | to-infinitive | fact not said here | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | fall | past | fact not said here | last | in earnest; asleep property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at last=Location |
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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