The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 9, sentence 31

So for two whole days he lay quietly among the reeds, eating such food as he could find, and drinking the water of the moorland pool, till he felt himself quite strong again.

Who acts: rest · What happens: lie, eat, find, drink, feel · To what, where: reeds, such food, water, rest

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), 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	So	so	ADV	_	7 lay	advmod
2	for	for	ADP	_	5 days	case
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 days	nummod
4	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 days	amod
5	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 lay	obl
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 lay	nsubj
7	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	7 lay	advmod
9	among	among	ADP	_	11 reeds	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 reeds	det
11	reeds	reed	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 lay	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 eating	punct
13	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 lay	advcl
14	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 food	amod
15	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 eating	obj
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	19 find	mark
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 find	nsubj
18	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 find	aux
19	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 eating	advcl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 drinking	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 drinking	cc
22	drinking	drink	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 lay	advcl
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 water	det
24	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 drinking	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	28 pool	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 pool	det
27	moorland	moorland	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 pool	compound
28	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 water	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 felt	punct
30	till	till	SCONJ	_	32 felt	mark
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 felt	nsubj
32	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 lay	conj
33	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	32 felt	obj
34	quite	quite	ADV	_	35 strong	advmod
35	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 felt	xcomp
36	again	again	ADV	_	32 felt	advmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	past	rest		the reeds	day	quietly property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent among reed=Location
2	eat	gerund	rest not said here	such food				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient
3	find	could	rest					vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
4	drink	gerund	rest not said here	the water of the moorland pool				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient
5	feel	past	rest	rest		again	strong property	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme

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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