The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 66
The wild beasts were his friends, and he slept by their side, but in the end he longed to see the face of a man again, and he came down into a valley and fell asleep by a lake in the lands of a widowed countess.
Who acts: wild beasts, Owen · What happens: be, sleep, long, see, come down, fall · To what, where: friends, end, face, valley
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wild beasts, Owen), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 beasts | det |
| 2 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 beasts | amod |
| 3 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 friends | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 friends | cop |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 friends | nmod:poss |
| 6 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 slept | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 slept | cc |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 slept | nsubj |
| 10 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 friends | acl:relcl |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 side | case |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 side | nmod:poss |
| 13 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 slept | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 longed | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 longed | cc |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 end | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 end | det |
| 18 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 longed | obl |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 longed | nsubj |
| 20 | longed | long | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 friends | parataxis |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 see | mark |
| 22 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 longed | xcomp |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 face | det |
| 24 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 see | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 man | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 man | det |
| 27 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 face | nmod |
| 28 | again | again | ADV | _ | 22 see | advmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 came | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 came | cc |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 came | nsubj |
| 32 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 longed | conj |
| 33 | down | down | ADV | _ | 32 came | advmod |
| 34 | into | into | ADP | _ | 36 valley | case |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 valley | det |
| 36 | valley | valley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 came | obl |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 fell | cc |
| 38 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 longed | conj |
| 39 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 fell | xcomp |
| 40 | by | by | ADP | _ | 42 lake | case |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 lake | det |
| 42 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 fell | obl |
| 43 | in | in | ADP | _ | 45 lands | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 lands | det |
| 45 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 lake | nmod |
| 46 | of | of | ADP | _ | 49 countess | case |
| 47 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 49 countess | det |
| 48 | widowed | widow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 49 countess | amod |
| 49 | countess | countess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 lands | nmod |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 friends | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the wild beasts | Owen's friends | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | sleep | past | Owen | Owen's friends not said here | by beasts's side | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Theme | |||
| 3 | long | past | Owen | in the end | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||
| 4 | see not said to happen | to-infinitive | Owen not said here | the face of a man | again | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer face=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | come down | past | Owen | a valley | down property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into valley=Initial_Location | |||
| 6 | fall | past | Owen not said here | by a lake in the lands of a widowed countess; asleep property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by lake=Location | ||||
| 7 | widow | participle | vn orphan-29.7 «NP V NP»: agent=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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