The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 134

Every day, through the heat of the afternoon, the governor, and his wife also, used to lie down for two or three hours in their own rooms, and so, for the matter of that, did most people in the palace.

Who acts: afternoon, that · What happens: use, lie down, do, heat, matter · To what, where: day, own rooms, most people, palace

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (afternoon, that), 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	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 day	det
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 did	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 heat	punct
4	through	through	ADP	_	6 heat	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 heat	det
6	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 day	appos
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 afternoon	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 afternoon	det
9	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 heat	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 governor	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 governor	det
12	governor	governor	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 heat	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 wife	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 wife	cc
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 wife	nmod:poss
16	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 day	conj
17	also	also	ADV	_	16 wife	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 used	punct
19	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 day	acl:relcl
20	to	to	PART	_	21 lie	mark
21	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 used	xcomp
22	down	down	ADP	_	21 lie	compound:prt
23	for	for	ADP	_	27 hours	case
24	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 hours	nummod
25	or	or	CCONJ	_	26 three	cc
26	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 two	conj
27	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 lie	obl
28	in	in	ADP	_	31 rooms	case
29	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 rooms	nmod:poss
30	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 rooms	amod
31	rooms	room	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 lie	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 did	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 did	cc
34	so	so	ADV	_	42 did	advmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 matter	punct
36	for	for	ADP	_	38 matter	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 matter	det
38	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 did	ccomp
39	of	of	ADP	_	40 that	case
40	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	38 matter	nmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 matter	punct
42	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
43	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	44 people	amod
44	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 did	obj
45	in	in	ADP	_	47 palace	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 palace	det
47	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 people	nmod
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	42 did	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	use	participle		every day and Nur's wife not said here			vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	lie down	to-infinitive			governors's own rooms	hour	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in room=Location
3	do	past		most people	the palace	day	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Eventuality
4	heat		the afternoon				nom heat «phenomenon intransitive»: of=agent
5	matter		that				nom matter «cognition intransitive»: of=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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