The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 69

He had walked far that day, and even wizards get tired sometimes, so in spite of the hard floor he was just dropping off to sleep, when midnight struck from the church tower of Plouhinec.

Who acts: wizard, wizards, midnight · What happens: walk, get, drop off, sleep, strike, spite · To what, where: spite, church tower, hard floor

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wizard, wizards, midnight), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 walked	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 walked	aux
3	walked	walk	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 day	advmod
5	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 day	det
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 walked	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 get	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 get	cc
9	even	even	ADV	_	10 wizards	advmod
10	wizards	wizard	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 get	nsubj
11	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 walked	conj
12	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 get	xcomp
13	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	12 tired	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 dropping	punct
15	so	so	ADV	_	25 dropping	advmod
16	in	in	ADP	_	17 spite	case
17	spite	spite	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 dropping	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	21 floor	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 floor	det
20	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 floor	amod
21	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 spite	nmod
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 dropping	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 dropping	aux
24	just	just	ADV	_	25 dropping	advmod
25	dropping	drop	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 walked	advcl
26	off	off	ADP	_	25 dropping	compound:prt
27	to	to	PART	_	28 sleep	mark
28	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 dropping	advcl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 struck	punct
30	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	32 struck	advmod
31	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 struck	nsubj
32	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 walked	conj
33	from	from	ADP	_	36 tower	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 tower	det
35	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 tower	compound
36	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 struck	obl
37	of	of	ADP	_	38 Plouhinec	case
38	Plouhinec	Plouhinec	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 tower	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 walked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	past · perfect	wizard			day		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	get	present	wizards				tired property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	drop off	past · progressive	wizard		spite of the hard floor			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in spite=Trajectory
4	sleep	to-infinitive	wizard not said here					vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	strike	past	midnight		the church tower of Plouhinec			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	spite			the hard floor				nom spite «feeling 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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