The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 84

He then washed himself and lay down to rest, and he was still asleep when the Simurgh came home.

Who acts: prince, Simurgh · What happens: wash, lay down, rest, be, come · To what, where: prince

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, 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 (prince, Simurgh), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 washed	nsubj
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 washed	advmod
3	washed	wash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 washed	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 lay	cc
6	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 washed	conj
7	down	down	ADV	_	6 lay	advmod
8	to	to	PART	_	9 rest	mark
9	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 lay	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 asleep	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 asleep	cc
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 asleep	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 asleep	cop
14	still	still	ADV	_	15 asleep	advmod
15	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 washed	advcl
16	when	when	SCONJ	_	19 came	mark
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Simurgh	det
18	Simurgh	Simurgh	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 came	nsubj
19	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 asleep	advcl
20	home	home	ADV	_	19 came	advmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 washed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	wash	past	prince	prince	then		vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient
2	lay down	infinitive	prince not said here			down property	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	rest	to-infinitive	prince not said here				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is	past	prince		still	asleep property	tree rules
5	come	past	the Simurgh			home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «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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