The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 101

Suddenly he felt so sleepy that he could not stand up, and throwing himself on the ground he sank into a deep slumber, not knowing that the dark lad was watching him.

Who acts: robber, dark lad · What happens: feel, not stand up, throw, sink, not know, watch · To what, where: robber, ground, deep slumber

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (robber, dark lad), 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	Suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	3 felt	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 felt	nsubj
3	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 sleepy	advmod
5	sleepy	sleepy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 felt	xcomp
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 stand	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 stand	nsubj
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 stand	aux
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 stand	advmod
10	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 sleepy	advcl
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 stand	compound:prt
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 sank	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 sank	cc
14	throwing	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 sank	csubj
15	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	14 throwing	obj
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 ground	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 ground	det
18	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 throwing	obl
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 sank	nsubj
20	sank	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 felt	advcl
21	into	into	ADP	_	24 slumber	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 slumber	det
23	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 slumber	amod
24	slumber	slumber	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 sank	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 knowing	punct
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 knowing	advmod
27	knowing	know	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 sank	advcl
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 watching	mark
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 lad	det
30	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 lad	amod
31	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 watching	nsubj
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 watching	aux
33	watching	watch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 knowing	advcl
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 watching	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 felt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	feel	past	robber			sleepy, suddenly property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	not stand up	could	robber				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	throw	gerund		robber	the ground		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent himself=Theme on ground=Destination
4	sink	past	robber		a deep slumber		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	not know	gerund	robber not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	watch	past · progressive	the dark lad	robber			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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