The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 49

At night sleep fled from him, and after tossing for hours on his bed, he would get up and plunge into a deep pool that lay a little way in the forest.

Who acts: man, deep pool · What happens: flee, toss, get up, plunge, lie · To what, where: night sleep, bed, deep pool, little way, forest

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, deep pool), 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	At	at	ADP	_	3 sleep	case
2	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sleep	compound
3	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fled	obl
4	fled	flee	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fled	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 get	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 get	cc
9	after	after	SCONJ	_	10 tossing	mark
10	tossing	toss	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 get	advcl
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 hours	case
12	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 tossing	obl
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 bed	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 bed	nmod:poss
15	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tossing	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 tossing	punct
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 get	nsubj
18	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 get	aux
19	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 fled	conj
20	up	up	ADP	_	19 get	compound:prt
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 plunge	cc
22	plunge	plunge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 get	conj
23	into	into	ADP	_	26 pool	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 pool	det
25	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 pool	amod
26	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 plunge	obl
27	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 lay	nsubj
28	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 pool	acl:relcl
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 way	det
30	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 way	amod
31	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 lay	obj
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 forest	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 forest	det
34	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 lay	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 fled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flee	past			night sleep		from man	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from he=Initial_Location
2	toss	gerund	man not said here		man's bed	hour		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent on bed=Destination
3	get up	would	man					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
4	plunge	present	man not said here		a deep pool			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into pool=Initial_Location
5	lie	past	a deep pool	a little way	the forest			vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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