The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 87

He heard the low words which Little Lasse said to God, and he immediately drew the boat to himself and laid Little Lasse to sleep on a bed of rose leaves.

Who acts: Lasse, Little · What happens: hear, say, draw, lay, sleep · To what, where: low words, God, boat, Lasse, Little Lasse, bed · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lasse, Little), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 heard	nsubj
2	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 words	det
4	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 words	amod
5	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 heard	obj
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 said	obj
7	Little	Little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 said	nsubj
8	Lasse	Lasse	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Little	flat
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 words	acl:relcl
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 God	case
11	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 said	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 drew	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 drew	cc
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 drew	nsubj
15	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	16 drew	advmod
16	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 heard	parataxis
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 boat	det
18	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 drew	obj
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 himself	case
20	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	16 drew	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 laid	cc
22	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 drew	conj
23	Little	Little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 Lasse	amod
24	Lasse	Lasse	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 laid	obj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 sleep	mark
26	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 laid	advcl
27	on	on	ADP	_	29 bed	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 bed	det
29	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 sleep	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 leaves	case
31	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 leaves	compound
32	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 bed	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	hear	past	Lasse	the low words				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	past	Little	the low words	God			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent which=Topic to god=Recipient
3	draw	past	Lasse	the boat	Lasse		immediately property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent boat=Theme to himself=Destination
4	lay	past	Lasse not said here	Little Lasse				vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lasse=Result
5	sleep	to-infinitive	Lasse not said here			a bed of rose leaves		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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