The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4, sentence 56

Besides, he thought it would be more prudent not to fall asleep, so he only lay still and snored loudly.

Who acts: puma, care · What happens: think, be, not fall, lie, snore · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (puma, care), 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	Besides	besides	INTJ	_	4 thought	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Besides	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 thought	nsubj
4	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 prudent	nsubj
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 prudent	aux
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 prudent	cop
8	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	9 prudent	advmod
9	prudent	prudent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 thought	ccomp
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 fall	advmod
11	to	to	PART	_	12 fall	mark
12	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 prudent	advcl
13	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 fall	xcomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 lay	punct
15	so	so	ADV	_	18 lay	advmod
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 lay	nsubj
17	only	only	ADV	_	18 lay	advmod
18	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 thought	parataxis
19	still	still	ADV	_	18 lay	advmod
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 snored	cc
21	snored	snore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 lay	conj
22	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	21 snored	advmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	puma			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	would	care		prudent property	tree rules
3	not fall	to-infinitive	care not said here		asleep property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	lie	past	puma	still		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	snore	past	puma not said here		loudly property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «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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