The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 5

When evening came they lay down to sleep, and put the knapsack under their heads for a pillow.

Who acts: east · What happens: come, lie down, sleep, put · To what, where: knapsack, heads

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (east), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	2 evening	mark
2	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	advcl
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 lay	nsubj
5	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	parataxis
6	down	down	ADV	_	5 lay	advmod
7	to	to	PART	_	8 sleep	mark
8	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 lay	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 put	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 put	cc
11	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 came	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 knapsack	det
13	knapsack	knapsack	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 put	obj
14	under	under	ADP	_	16 heads	case
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 heads	nmod:poss
16	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 put	obl
17	for	for	ADP	_	19 pillow	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 pillow	det
19	pillow	pillow	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 put	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	lie down	past	east			down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	sleep	to-infinitive	east not said here				vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	put	infinitive		the knapsack	east's heads	for a pillow	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent knapsack=Theme under head=Destination

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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