The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 9, sentence 44

And he curled himself up in the soft grass till the shots died away in the distance.

Who acts: dog, shots · What happens: curl up, die away · To what, where: dog, soft grass

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 (dog, shots), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 curled	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 curled	nsubj
3	curled	curl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 curled	obj
5	up	up	ADP	_	3 curled	compound:prt
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 grass	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 grass	det
8	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 grass	amod
9	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 curled	obl
10	till	till	SCONJ	_	13 died	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 shots	det
12	shots	shot	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 died	nsubj
13	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 curled	advcl
14	away	away	ADV	_	13 died	advmod
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 distance	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 distance	det
17	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 died	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 curled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	curl up	past	dog	dog		the soft grass			vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient
2	die away	past	the shots					in the distance; away property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in distance=Attribute

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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