The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 10

Before he had finished it began to rain heavily, so he hid himself in the hollow trunk of a tree, where he was so dry and comfortable that he soon fell fast asleep.

Who acts: Antoine, forest · What happens: finish, begin, hide, be, fall · To what, where: rain, Antoine, hollow trunk

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Antoine, forest), 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	Before	before	SCONJ	_	4 finished	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 finished	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 finished	aux
4	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 began	advcl
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 began	nsubj
6	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 rain	mark
8	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 began	obj
9	heavily	heavily	ADV	_	6 began	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 hid	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	13 hid	advmod
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 hid	nsubj
13	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 began	conj
14	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	13 hid	obj
15	in	in	ADP	_	18 trunk	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 trunk	det
17	hollow	hollow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 trunk	amod
18	trunk	trunk	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 hid	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 tree	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 tree	det
21	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 trunk	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 dry	punct
23	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	27 dry	advmod
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 dry	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 dry	cop
26	so	so	ADV	_	27 dry	advmod
27	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 tree	parataxis
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 comfortable	cc
29	comfortable	comfortable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 dry	conj
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 fell	mark
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 fell	nsubj
32	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	33 fell	advmod
33	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 comfortable	advcl
34	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	33 fell	advmod
35	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 fell	xcomp
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	finish	past · perfect	Antoine				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	begin	past	forest	rain		heavily property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rain=Eventuality
3	hide	past	Antoine	Antoine	the hollow trunk of a tree		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent himself=Patient in trunk=Location
4	is	past	Antoine			dry property	tree rules
5	be		Antoine not said here				tree rules
6	fall	past	Antoine			asleep, fast, soon 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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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