The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 67

‘Then my eyes will not close nor will my head lay itself down till I fetch my wife and horses home again,’ answered he, and he stopped and noted the tracks of the horses on the grass, and followed after them till he arrived at the wood, when the darkness fell.

Who acts: eyes, head, I, man, darkness · What happens: not close, lie down, fetch, answer, stop, note · To what, where: head, wife, man, tracks, grass, wood · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eyes, head, I, man), 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	_	7 close	punct
2	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 close	advmod
3	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 eyes	nmod:poss
4	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 close	nsubj
5	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 close	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 close	advmod
7	close	close	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 answered	ccomp
8	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	12 lay	cc
9	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 lay	aux
10	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 head	nmod:poss
11	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lay	nsubj
12	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 close	conj
13	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	12 lay	obj
14	down	down	ADP	_	12 lay	compound:prt
15	till	till	SCONJ	_	17 fetch	mark
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 fetch	nsubj
17	fetch	fetch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 lay	advcl
18	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 wife	nmod:poss
19	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 fetch	obj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 horses	cc
21	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 wife	conj
22	home	home	ADV	_	19 wife	advmod
23	again	again	ADV	_	17 fetch	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 close	punct
25	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 close	punct
26	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 answered	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 stopped	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 stopped	cc
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 stopped	nsubj
31	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 answered	parataxis
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 noted	cc
33	noted	note	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 stopped	conj
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 tracks	det
35	tracks	track	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 noted	obj
36	of	of	ADP	_	38 horses	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 horses	det
38	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 tracks	nmod
39	on	on	ADP	_	41 grass	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 grass	det
41	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 noted	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 followed	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 followed	cc
44	followed	follow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 stopped	conj
45	after	after	ADP	_	46 them	case
46	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 followed	obl
47	till	till	SCONJ	_	49 arrived	mark
48	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 arrived	nsubj
49	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 followed	advcl
50	at	at	ADP	_	52 wood	case
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 wood	det
52	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 arrived	obl
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 fell	punct
54	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	57 fell	advmod
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 darkness	det
56	darkness	darkness	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 fell	nsubj
57	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	52 wood	acl:relcl
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	not close	future	my eyes				then	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	lie down	future	my head	head				tree rules
3	fetch	present	I	my wife and horses			again	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Theme
4	answer speech: assert	past			man			tree rules
5	stop	past	man					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
6	note	past	man not said here	the tracks of the horses		the grass		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent track=Topic
7	follow	participle	man not said here				after eyes = eye	vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent after they=Theme
8	arrive	past	man			the wood		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	fall	past	the darkness					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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