The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 114

“I feel better now,” said the lion when he had done, “so now I shall go to sleep on this nice soft moss, and if you like you can lie down beside me.”

Who acts: lion, you · What happens: feel, say, do, go, sleep, like · To what, where: nice soft moss · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lion, you), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	3 feel	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 feel	nsubj
3	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 said	ccomp
4	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 feel	xcomp
5	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 feel	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 feel	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 feel	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 lion	det
10	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	obj
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 done	advmod
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 done	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 done	aux
14	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 said	ccomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 done	punct
16	“	"	PUNCT	_	21 go	punct
17	so	so	ADV	_	21 go	advmod
18	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 go	advmod
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 go	nsubj
20	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 go	aux
21	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
22	to	to	PART	_	23 sleep	mark
23	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 go	xcomp
24	on	on	ADP	_	28 moss	case
25	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	28 moss	nsubj
26	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 moss	amod
27	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 moss	amod
28	moss	moss	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 sleep	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 lie	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 lie	cc
31	if	if	SCONJ	_	33 like	mark
32	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	33 like	nsubj
33	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 lie	advcl
34	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	36 lie	nsubj
35	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 lie	aux
36	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 go	conj
37	down	down	ADP	_	36 lie	compound:prt
38	beside	beside	ADP	_	39 me	case
39	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 lie	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 go	punct
41	”	"	PUNCT	_	21 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel in a quote	present	the lion = lion		now	good property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	past	the lion				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	do	past · perfect	lion				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	go in a quote	shall	the lion = lion		now		vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	sleep in a quote	to-infinitive	the lion = lion not said here	nice soft moss			vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	like a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	you				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
7	lie down in a quote	can	you			beside the lion = lion	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside i=Location

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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