The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 19, sentence 140

Then he went after them, and found them lying down to rest in the midst of a forest.

Who acts: Jack, pieces · What happens: go, find, lie down, rest · To what, where: pieces, midst

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jack, pieces), 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 went	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	after	after	ADP	_	5 them	case
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 found	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 found	cc
8	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 found	obj
10	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 found	xcomp
11	down	down	ADV	_	10 lying	advmod
12	to	to	PART	_	13 rest	mark
13	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 lying	advcl
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 midst	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 midst	det
16	midst	midst	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 rest	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 forest	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 forest	det
19	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 midst	nmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	Jack			after pieces = piece; then		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	find	past	Jack not said here	pieces = piece				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent they=Attribute clause=Theme
3	lie down	gerund	pieces = piece not said here				down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	rest	to-infinitive	pieces = piece not said here		the midst of a forest			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in midst=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: «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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