The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 104
I lay down as usual at night and pretended to fall asleep.
Who acts: I · What happens: lay down, pretend, fall
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 lay | nsubj |
| 2 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | down | down | ADV | _ | 2 lay | advmod |
| 4 | as | as | ADP | _ | 5 usual | case |
| 5 | usual | usual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 lay | obl |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 night | case |
| 7 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lay | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 pretended | cc |
| 9 | pretended | pretend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 lay | conj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 fall | mark |
| 11 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 pretended | xcomp |
| 12 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 fall | xcomp |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay down | present | I | night | as usual; down property | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as usual=Attribute | |||
| 2 | pretend | past | I not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | fall | to-infinitive | I not said here | asleep property | vn occur-48.3 «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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