The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 57

And as for a bed, when night came, and he grew sleepy, he looked about for a heap of straw, and making a hole in it, crept in, like a lizard.

Who acts: night, Peronnik · What happens: come, grow, look, make, creep in · To what, where: hole, straw

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (night, Peronnik), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	9 came	cc
2	as	as	ADV	_	9 came	advmod
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 bed	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 bed	det
5	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 as	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 came	punct
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 came	advmod
8	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 came	nsubj
9	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 grew	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 grew	cc
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 grew	nsubj
13	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 came	parataxis
14	sleepy	sleepy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 grew	xcomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 looked	punct
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 looked	nsubj
17	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 came	conj
18	about	about	ADV	_	17 looked	advmod
19	for	for	ADP	_	21 heap	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 heap	det
21	heap	heap	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 looked	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 straw	case
23	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 heap	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 crept	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 crept	cc
26	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	32 crept	advcl
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 hole	det
28	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 making	obj
29	in	in	ADP	_	30 it	case
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 hole	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 making	punct
32	crept	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 came	conj
33	in	in	ADV	_	32 crept	advmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 lizard	punct
35	like	like	ADP	_	37 lizard	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 lizard	det
37	lizard	lizard	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 crept	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	night				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	grow	past	Peronnik			sleepy property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	look	past	Peronnik			for a heap of straw; about property	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for heap=Theme
4	make	gerund		a hole	straw		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset hole=Product
5	creep in	past	night not said here			like a lizard	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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