The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 52
And when the hall was empty he lay down for a few minutes.
Who acts: hall, prince · What happens: be, lie down
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hall, prince), 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 | _ | 6 empty | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 empty | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 hall | det |
| 4 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 empty | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 empty | cop |
| 6 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 lay | nsubj |
| 8 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 empty | parataxis |
| 9 | down | down | ADV | _ | 8 lay | advmod |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 minutes | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 minutes | det |
| 12 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 minutes | amod |
| 13 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 lay | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 empty | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the hall | empty property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | lie down | past | prince | minute | down property | 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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