The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 100
Away they went, and the young man fell asleep, and slept long.
Who acts: sons, young man · What happens: go, fall, sleep
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sons, young man), 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 | Away | away | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 fell | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 fell | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 man | det |
| 7 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 man | amod |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fell | nsubj |
| 9 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 10 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 fell | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 slept | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 slept | cc |
| 13 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 14 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 slept | xcomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | sons = son | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fall | past | the young man | asleep property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | sleep | past | sons = son not said here | long property | 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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