The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 116
Matte lay down, but soon rose again.
Who acts: Matte · What happens: lie down, rise
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Matte), 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 | Matte | matte | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lay | nsubj |
| 2 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | down | down | ADV | _ | 2 lay | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 rose | punct |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 rose | cc |
| 6 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 rose | advmod |
| 7 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 lay | conj |
| 8 | again | again | ADV | _ | 7 rose | advmod |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie down | past | Matte | down property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | rise | past | Matte not said here | again | soon property | vn assuming_position-50 «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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