The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 115
So the boy and the lion slept soundly side by side, till the sun rose.
Who acts: boy, sun · What happens: sleep, rise · To what, where: side
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 (boy, 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 7 slept | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 boy | det |
| 3 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 slept | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 lion | cc |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 lion | det |
| 6 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 boy | conj |
| 7 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | soundly | soundly | ADV | _ | 7 slept | advmod |
| 9 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 slept | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 side | case |
| 11 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 side | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 rose | punct |
| 13 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 16 rose | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 sun | det |
| 15 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 rose | nsubj |
| 16 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 slept | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 slept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sleep | past | the boy and the lion | side by side | soundly property | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | rise | past | the sun | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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 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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