The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 92
Then Ian was killed a second time, and after the rest of the robbers had eaten, they lay down and slept till morning.
Who acts: men · What happens: kill, eat, lay down, sleep · To what, where: Ian, rest
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 (men), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 killed | advmod |
| 2 | Ian | Ian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 killed | aux:pass |
| 4 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 time | det |
| 6 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 time | amod |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 killed | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 lay | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 lay | cc |
| 10 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 17 eaten | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 rest | det |
| 12 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 eaten | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 robbers | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 robbers | det |
| 15 | robbers | robber | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 rest | nmod |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 eaten | aux |
| 17 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 lay | advcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 eaten | punct |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 lay | nsubj |
| 20 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 killed | parataxis |
| 21 | down | down | ADV | _ | 20 lay | advmod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 slept | cc |
| 23 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 lay | conj |
| 24 | till | till | ADP | _ | 25 morning | case |
| 25 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 slept | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 killed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill | past · passive | Ian | then; time | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | eat | past · perfect · passive | the rest of the robbers | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 3 | lay down | present | men = man | down property | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | sleep | past | men = man not said here | morning | 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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