Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 14

Then he lay down on the rushes, and in two turns he fell asleep.

Who acts: Carl, two · What happens: lie down, turn, fall · To what, where: rushes

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Carl, two), 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 lay	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 lay	nsubj
3	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	down	down	ADV	_	3 lay	advmod
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 rushes	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 rushes	det
7	rushes	rush	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lay	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 turns	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 turns	cc
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 two	case
11	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 turns	nsubj
12	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 lay	conj
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 fell	nsubj
14	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 turns	ccomp
15	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 fell	xcomp
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie down	past	Carl	the rushes	then	down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on rush=Location
2	turn	present	two				tree rules
3	fall	past	Carl			asleep property	vn occur-48.3 «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: «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Project Gutenberg book 2892 (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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