The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 93
When night came on she was let into the palace and lay down till the prince was in such a dead sleep that all she did couldn’t awake him.
Who acts: night, silk, all · What happens: come, let, lay down, be, do, not awake · To what, where: silk, palace, dead sleep
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 (night, silk, all), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 7 let | mark |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 let | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 let | aux:pass |
| 7 | let | let | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 came | advcl |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 palace | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 palace | det |
| 10 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 let | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 lay | cc |
| 12 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 let | conj |
| 13 | down | down | ADV | _ | 12 lay | advmod |
| 14 | till | till | ADP | _ | 16 prince | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 prince | det |
| 16 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 sleep | obl |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 sleep | cop |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 sleep | case |
| 19 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 22 sleep | det:predet |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 sleep | det |
| 21 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 sleep | amod |
| 22 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lay | obl |
| 23 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 awake | obj |
| 24 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 29 awake | nsubj:outer |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 did | nsubj |
| 26 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 all | acl:relcl |
| 27 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 awake | aux |
| 28 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 29 awake | advmod |
| 29 | awake | awake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 sleep | acl:relcl |
| 30 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 awake | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | night | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | let | past · passive | silk | the palace | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | lay down | infinitive | down property | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | past | such dead sleep | till the prince | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | do | past | silk | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | not awake | could | all | such dead sleep | 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 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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