The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 9, sentence 27

Here he lay down, but he was too tired and too frightened to fall asleep, and with the earliest peep of the sun the reeds began to rustle, and he saw that he had blundered into a colony of wild ducks.

Who acts: rest, reeds, sun · What happens: lie down, be, fall, begin, rustle, see · To what, where: colony · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rest, reeds, sun), 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	Here	here	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	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 tired	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 tired	cc
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 tired	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 tired	cop
9	too	too	ADV	_	10 tired	advmod
10	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 lay	advcl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 frightened	cc
12	too	too	ADV	_	13 frightened	advmod
13	frightened	frightened	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 tired	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 fall	mark
15	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 frightened	xcomp
16	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 fall	xcomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 began	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 began	cc
19	with	with	ADP	_	22 peep	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 peep	det
21	earliest	early	ADJ	Degree=Sup	22 peep	amod
22	peep	peep	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 began	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 sun	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 sun	det
25	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 peep	nmod
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 reeds	det
27	reeds	reed	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 began	nsubj
28	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lay	conj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 rustle	mark
30	rustle	rustle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 began	xcomp
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 saw	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 saw	cc
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 saw	nsubj
34	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lay	conj
35	that	that	SCONJ	_	38 blundered	mark
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 blundered	nsubj
37	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 blundered	aux
38	blundered	blunder	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	34 saw	ccomp
39	into	into	ADP	_	41 colony	case
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 colony	det
41	colony	colony	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 blundered	obl
42	of	of	ADP	_	44 ducks	case
43	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 ducks	amod
44	ducks	duck	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 colony	nmod
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	lie down	past	rest	here	down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	rest		tired property	tree rules
3	be		rest not said here			tree rules
4	fall	to-infinitive	rest not said here		asleep property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	begin	past	the reeds		with the earliest peep of the sun	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	rustle	to-infinitive	the reeds not said here			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	see	past	rest			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
8	blunder	past · perfect	rest	a colony of wild ducks		tree rules
9	peep		the sun			nom peep «event intransitive»: of=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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