The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 5

‘Lay down thy weariness on the grass,’ said she, and he did as she bade him, and fell fast asleep.

Who acts: daughter, king · What happens: lay down, say, do, bade, fall · To what, where: weariness, grass, king · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter, king), 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	11 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	on	on	ADP	_	8 grass	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 grass	det
8	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Lay	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Lay	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Lay	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 said	nsubj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 did	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 did	cc
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 did	nsubj
16	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 said	conj
17	as	as	SCONJ	_	19 bade	mark
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 bade	nsubj
19	bade	bade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 did	advcl
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 bade	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 fell	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 fell	cc
23	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 said	conj
24	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	23 fell	advmod
25	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 fell	xcomp
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lay down	infinitive		thy weariness	the grass		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent weariness=Theme on grass=Destination
2	say speech: assert	past	daughter				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	do	past	king				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	bade	past	daughter	king			tree rules
5	fall	past	daughter not said here			asleep, fast property	vn occur-48.3 «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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