The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 34, sentence 26

'Well, then, stretch yourself out, and rest your head on that piece of wood,' said the mink.

What happens: stretch out, rest, say · To what, where: yourself, head, piece, mink · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 stretch	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	6 stretch	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 stretch	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 then	punct
6	stretch	stretch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 said	ccomp
7	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 stretch	obj
8	out	out	ADP	_	6 stretch	compound:prt
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 rest	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 rest	cc
11	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 stretch	conj
12	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 head	nmod:poss
13	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 rest	obj
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 piece	case
15	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 piece	det
16	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 rest	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 wood	case
18	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 piece	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 stretch	punct
20	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 stretch	punct
21	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 mink	det
23	mink	mink	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 said	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	stretch out	infinitive	yourself		then	vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent yourself=Patient
2	rest	infinitive	your head	that piece of wood		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent head=Theme on piece=Location
3	say speech: assert	past	the mink			tree rules

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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