The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 77
So the king ate and lay down, and slept till the sun waked him.
Who acts: king, sun · What happens: eat, lay down, sleep, wake · To what, where: king
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 (king, sun), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 ate | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ate | nsubj |
| 4 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 lay | cc |
| 6 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 ate | conj |
| 7 | down | down | ADV | _ | 6 lay | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 slept | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 slept | cc |
| 10 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ate | conj |
| 11 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 14 waked | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 sun | det |
| 13 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 waked | nsubj |
| 14 | waked | wake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 slept | advcl |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 waked | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ate | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | past | the king | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | lay down | infinitive | the king not said here | down property | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | sleep | past | the king not said here | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | wake | past | the sun | king | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
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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