The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 10

He lay there for a long time quite still, and he still heard the frying-pan frizzling at home of the fire, the frizzling was very plain, Little Lasse heard it quite near him; and so he woke up and rubbed his eyes.

Who acts: Lasse, frizzling, Little Lasse · What happens: lie, hear, be, wake up, rub · To what, where: pan frizzling, home, frizzling, eyes

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lasse, frizzling, Little Lasse), 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 lay	nsubj
2	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 lay	advmod
4	for	for	ADP	_	7 time	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 time	det
6	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 time	amod
7	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lay	obl
8	quite	quite	ADV	_	9 still	advmod
9	still	still	ADV	_	2 lay	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 heard	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 heard	cc
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 heard	nsubj
13	still	still	ADV	_	14 heard	advmod
14	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 lay	conj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 frizzling	det
16	frying	frying	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 pan	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 frying	punct
18	pan	pan	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 frizzling	compound
19	frizzling	frizzling	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 heard	obj
20	at	at	ADP	_	21 home	case
21	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 frizzling	nmod
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 fire	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 fire	det
24	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 home	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 plain	punct
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 frizzling	det
27	frizzling	frizzling	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 plain	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 plain	cop
29	very	very	ADV	_	30 plain	advmod
30	plain	plain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 heard	parataxis
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 heard	punct
32	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 Lasse	amod
33	Lasse	Lasse	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 heard	nsubj
34	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 plain	conj
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 heard	obj
36	quite	quite	ADV	_	34 heard	advmod
37	near	near	ADP	_	38 him	case
38	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 heard	obl
39	;	;	PUNCT	_	43 woke	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 woke	cc
41	so	so	ADV	_	43 woke	advmod
42	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 woke	nsubj
43	woke	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 lay	parataxis
44	up	up	ADP	_	43 woke	compound:prt
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 rubbed	cc
46	rubbed	rub	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 woke	conj
47	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	48 eyes	nmod:poss
48	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 rubbed	obj
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	past	Lasse		there	still; time		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	hear	past	Lasse	the pan frizzling	home of the fire	still		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer frizzling=Stimulus
3	is	past	the frizzling				plain property	tree rules
4	hear	past	Little Lasse	frizzling			near Nukku	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
5	wake up	past	Lasse					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
6	rub	past	Lasse not said here	Lasse's eyes				vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent eye=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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