The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 109

So the boy lay down again on the buffalo skins, and fasted for ten days, and at the end of that time he turned his face to the wall, and fasted for twenty days longer.

Who acts: boy · What happens: lie down, fast, turn · To what, where: buffalo skins, face, end

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy), 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 lay	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 boy	det
3	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lay	nsubj
4	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	down	down	ADV	_	4 lay	advmod
6	again	again	ADV	_	4 lay	advmod
7	on	on	ADP	_	10 skins	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 skins	det
9	buffalo	buffalo	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 skins	compound
10	skins	skin	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 lay	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 fasted	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 fasted	cc
13	fasted	fast	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 skins	acl
14	for	for	ADP	_	16 days	case
15	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 days	nummod
16	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 fasted	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 turned	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 turned	cc
19	at	at	ADP	_	21 end	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 end	det
21	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 turned	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 time	case
23	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 time	det
24	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 end	nmod
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 turned	nsubj
26	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lay	parataxis
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 face	nmod:poss
28	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 turned	obj
29	to	to	ADP	_	31 wall	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 wall	det
31	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 turned	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 fasted	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 fasted	cc
34	fasted	fast	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 turned	conj
35	for	for	ADP	_	37 days	case
36	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	37 days	nummod
37	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 fasted	obl
38	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	34 fasted	advmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie down	past	the boy		the buffalo skins	again	down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on skin=Location
2	fast	participle		the buffalo skins not said here		day		tree rules
3	turn	past	boy	boy's face		at the end of that time	to the wall	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.agent V NP.theme PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Agent face=Theme at end=Source to wall=Trajectory
4	fast	participle	boy not said here			day	long property	tree rules

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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