The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 131

Their eyes were heavy for lack of slumber, and they slept as soundly as if there had not been such a thing as an angry sea roaring furiously around their lonely dwelling.

Who acts: eyes, angry sea · What happens: be, sleep, have, not be, roar, lack · To what, where: thing, lonely dwelling, slumber

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 (eyes, angry sea), 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	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 eyes	nmod:poss
2	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 heavy	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 heavy	cop
4	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 lack	case
6	lack	lack	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 heavy	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 slumber	case
8	slumber	slumber	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lack	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 slept	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 slept	cc
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 slept	nsubj
12	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 heavy	conj
13	as	as	ADV	_	14 soundly	advmod
14	soundly	soundly	ADV	_	12 slept	advmod
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 had	mark
16	if	if	SCONJ	_	18 had	mark
17	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	18 had	expl
18	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 slept	advcl
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 thing	advmod
20	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 thing	cop
21	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	23 thing	det:predet
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 thing	det
23	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 had	obj
24	as	as	ADP	_	27 sea	case
25	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 sea	det
26	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 sea	amod
27	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 thing	nmod
28	roaring	roar	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 sea	acl
29	furiously	furiously	ADV	_	28 roaring	advmod
30	around	around	ADP	_	33 dwelling	case
31	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 dwelling	nmod:poss
32	lonely	lonely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 dwelling	amod
33	dwelling	dwelling	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 roaring	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 heavy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	things's eyes			for lack of slumber; heavy property	tree rules
2	sleep	past	eyes = eye			soundly property	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	have	past	eyes = eye not said here		there		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	not is a	participle		such thing		as a angry sea	tree rules
5	roar	gerund	a angry sea not said here		things's lonely dwelling	furiously property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around dwelling=Location
6	lack			slumber			nom lack «state transitive»: of=patient

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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