The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 104

‘Lay down thy weariness,’ said she, and the king’s son, thinking he could only die once, sank on the floor at her bidding, and fell sound asleep.

Who acts: girl, youth · What happens: lay down, say, think, die, sink, fall · To what, where: weariness, floor · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, youth), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	2 Lay	punct
2	Lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
3	down	down	ADP	_	2 Lay	compound:prt
4	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	5 weariness	nmod:poss
5	weariness	weariness	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Lay	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Lay	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Lay	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 said	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 son	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 son	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 king	det
13	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 son	nmod:poss
14	’s	's	PART	_	13 king	case
15	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	ccomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 thinking	punct
17	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 said	advcl
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 die	nsubj
19	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 die	aux
20	only	only	ADV	_	21 die	advmod
21	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 thinking	ccomp
22	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	21 die	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 sank	punct
24	sank	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 said	parataxis
25	on	on	ADP	_	27 floor	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 floor	det
27	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 sank	obl
28	at	at	ADP	_	30 bidding	case
29	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 bidding	nmod:poss
30	bidding	bidding	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 sank	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 fell	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 fell	cc
33	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 said	conj
34	sound	sound	ADV	_	33 fell	advmod
35	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 fell	xcomp
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lay down	infinitive		thy weariness			vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weariness=Result
2	say speech: assert	past	girl				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	think speech: other	gerund	girl not said here				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	die	could	youth			once property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
5	sink	past			the floor	at girl's bidding	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
6	fall	past	girl not said here			asleep, sound property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	bid		girl				nom bidding «communication transitive»: poss=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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