The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 36
She then lay down by her husband, gave him a kiss on the cheek, and fell asleep.
Who acts: joy · What happens: lie down, give, fall · To what, where: kiss, husband, cheek
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (joy), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 lay | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 lay | advmod |
| 3 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | down | down | ADV | _ | 3 lay | advmod |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 husband | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 husband | nmod:poss |
| 7 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lay | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 gave | punct |
| 9 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 lay | conj |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 gave | iobj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 kiss | det |
| 12 | kiss | kiss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gave | obj |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 cheek | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 cheek | det |
| 15 | cheek | cheek | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gave | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 fell | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 fell | cc |
| 18 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 lay | conj |
| 19 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 fell | xcomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie down | past | joy | then | by joy's husband; down property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by husband=Location | |||
| 2 | give | past | joy not said here | a kiss | husband | the cheek | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent he=Recipient kiss=Theme on cheek=Asset | ||
| 3 | fall | past | joy 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 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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