The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 6, sentence 29

After that he lay down and slept till morning dawned, and the man came and unlocked the door and shook the sleeper.

Who acts: Ian, man · What happens: lie down, sleep, dawn, come, unlock, shake · To what, where: door, sleeper

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ian, man), 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	After	after	ADP	_	2 that	case
2	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 lay	obl
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lay	nsubj
4	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	down	down	ADV	_	4 lay	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 slept	cc
7	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lay	conj
8	till	till	ADP	_	9 morning	case
9	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 slept	obl
10	dawned	dawn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 slept	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 came	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 came	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 man	det
14	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 came	nsubj
15	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lay	advcl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 unlocked	cc
17	unlocked	unlock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 came	conj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 door	det
19	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 unlocked	obj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 shook	cc
21	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 unlocked	conj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 sleeper	det
23	sleeper	sleeper	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 shook	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	lie down	past	Ian		after that	down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	sleep	past	Ian not said here		morning		tree rules
3	dawn	participle	Ian not said here				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	come	past	the man				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	unlock	past	the man not said here	the door			vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient
6	shake	past	the man not said here	the sleeper			vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent sleeper=Patient

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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