The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 87
So Ian ate and drank, and fell sound asleep under the cask.
Who acts: Ian · What happens: eat, drink, fall
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 (Ian), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 ate | advmod |
| 2 | Ian | Ian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 ate | nsubj |
| 3 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 drank | cc |
| 5 | drank | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ate | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 fell | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 fell | cc |
| 8 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ate | conj |
| 9 | sound | sound | ADV | _ | 10 asleep | advmod |
| 10 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 fell | xcomp |
| 11 | under | under | ADP | _ | 13 cask | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 cask | det |
| 13 | cask | cask | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 asleep | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ate | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | past | Ian | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | drink | past | Ian not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | fall | past | Ian not said here | 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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