The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 18, sentence 104
And he lay down again and slept soundly for a couple of hours.
Who acts: hedgehog · What happens: lie down, sleep
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hedgehog), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 lay | cc |
| 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 | again | again | ADV | _ | 3 lay | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 slept | cc |
| 7 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 lay | conj |
| 8 | soundly | soundly | ADV | _ | 7 slept | advmod |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 couple | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 couple | det |
| 11 | couple | couple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 slept | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 hours | case |
| 13 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 couple | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie down | past | hedgehog | again | down property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | sleep | past | hedgehog not said here | for a couple of hours; soundly property | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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: «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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