The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 39

The donkey was lying on a soft cool bed of moss near a stream, rolling herself backwards and forwards from pleasure.

Who acts: donkey · What happens: lie, roll · To what, where: soft cool bed, donkey

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (donkey), 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	2 donkey	det
2	donkey	donkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lying	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lying	aux
4	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	9 bed	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 bed	det
7	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 bed	amod
8	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 bed	amod
9	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lying	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 moss	case
11	moss	moss	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bed	nmod
12	near	near	ADP	_	14 stream	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 stream	det
14	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lying	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 rolling	punct
16	rolling	roll	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 lying	conj
17	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	16 rolling	obj
18	backwards	backwards	ADV	_	16 rolling	advmod
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 pleasure	cc
20	forwards	forwards	ADV	_	22 pleasure	advmod
21	from	from	ADP	_	22 pleasure	case
22	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 backwards	conj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 lying	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	past · progressive	the donkey			a soft cool bed of moss		near a stream	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bed=Location
2	roll	gerund	the donkey not said here	donkey				backwards property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=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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