The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 196

The wicked old man lay down in bed and put the bronze ring into his mouth, and very soon he was asleep.

Who acts: wicked old man, man · What happens: lie down, put, be · To what, where: bed, bronze ring, mouth

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Bronze Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wicked old man, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 man	det
2	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lay	nsubj
5	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	down	down	ADV	_	5 lay	advmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 bed	case
8	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lay	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 put	cc
10	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 lay	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 ring	det
12	bronze	bronze	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 ring	compound
13	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 put	obj
14	into	into	ADP	_	16 mouth	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 mouth	nmod:poss
16	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 put	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 asleep	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 asleep	cc
19	very	very	ADV	_	20 soon	advmod
20	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	23 asleep	advmod
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 asleep	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 asleep	cop
23	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 lay	parataxis
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lie down	past	the wicked old man		bed	down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in bed=Location
2	put	infinitive	the wicked old man not said here	the bronze ring	man's mouth		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent ring=Goal
3	is	past	man			asleep, soon property	tree rules

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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