The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 2, sentence 4
So the giant lay down to sleep again, and slept for a long, long time.
Who acts: giant · What happens: lie down, sleep
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master-maid, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (giant), 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 lay | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 giant | det |
| 3 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lay | nsubj |
| 4 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | down | down | ADV | _ | 4 lay | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 sleep | mark |
| 7 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 lay | advcl |
| 8 | again | again | ADV | _ | 7 sleep | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 slept | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 slept | cc |
| 11 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 lay | conj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 time | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 time | det |
| 14 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 time | amod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 long | punct |
| 16 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 time | amod |
| 17 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 slept | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie down | past | the giant | down property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | sleep | to-infinitive | the giant not said here | again | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | sleep | past | the giant not said here | time | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: 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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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