The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 101

And Father Grumbler, nothing loth, drank one glass after another, till his head fell forward on the table, and once more he was sound asleep.

Who acts: Father, head · What happens: drink, fall, be · To what, where: one glass, table

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Father, head), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	2 Father	cc
2	Father	Father	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 drank	nsubj
3	Grumbler	Grumbler	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Father	flat
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 nothing	punct
5	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 Father	appos
6	loth	loth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 nothing	amod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Father	punct
8	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 glass	nummod
10	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 drank	obj
11	after	after	ADP	_	12 another	case
12	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	8 drank	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 fell	punct
14	till	till	SCONJ	_	17 fell	mark
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 head	nmod:poss
16	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 fell	nsubj
17	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 drank	parataxis
18	forward	forward	ADV	_	17 fell	advmod
19	on	on	ADP	_	21 table	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 table	det
21	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 fell	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 asleep	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 asleep	cc
24	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	25 more	advmod
25	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	29 asleep	advmod
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 asleep	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 asleep	cop
28	sound	sound	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 asleep	amod
29	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 fell	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 drank	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drink	past	Father	one glass		after another		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glass=Patient
2	fall	past	Father's head		the table		forward property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on table=Location
3	is	past	head				asleep 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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