The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3, sentence 65

But, as it was, the dried leaves were all empty, and the rabbit at last fell asleep where he was.

Who acts: meeting, dried leaves, rabbit, credit · What happens: be, dry, fall

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (meeting, dried leaves, rabbit, credit), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	12 empty	cc
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 But	punct
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	5 was	mark
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 was	nsubj
5	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 empty	advcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 was	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 leaves	det
8	dried	dry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 leaves	amod
9	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 empty	nsubj
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 empty	cop
11	all	all	ADV	_	12 empty	advmod
12	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 fell	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 fell	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 rabbit	det
16	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 fell	nsubj
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 last	case
18	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 rabbit	nmod
19	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 empty	parataxis
20	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 fell	xcomp
21	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	23 was	advmod
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 was	nsubj
23	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 fell	advcl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 empty	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	be	past	meeting		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	dry	participle			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	is	past	the dried leaves	all, empty property	tree rules
4	fall	past	the rabbit at last	asleep property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	be	past	credit		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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