The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 11
There he lay in the boat, where he had fallen asleep.
Who acts: Lasse · What happens: lie, fall · To what, where: boat
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), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 lay | expl |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 lay | nsubj |
| 3 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 boat | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 boat | det |
| 6 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lay | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 fallen | punct |
| 8 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 11 fallen | advmod |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 fallen | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 fallen | aux |
| 11 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 lay | conj |
| 12 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 fallen | xcomp |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | past | Lasse | the boat; there | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in boat=Location | ||||
| 2 | fall | past · perfect | Lasse | 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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