The Blue Fairy Book, The Terrible Head, sentence 82

But the youngest slept between her two sisters, and she lay on her back, with her beautiful sad face turned to the sky; and though she slept her eyes were wide open.

Who acts: youngest, two, eyes · What happens: sleep, lie, turn, be · To what, where: two sisters, back, beautiful sad face, sky

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Terrible Head. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youngest, two, eyes), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 slept	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 youngest	det
3	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 slept	nsubj
4	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	between	between	ADP	_	6 her	case
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 slept	obl
7	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 sisters	nummod
8	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 slept	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 lay	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 lay	cc
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 lay	nsubj
12	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 slept	conj
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 back	case
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 back	nmod:poss
15	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lay	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 face	punct
17	with	with	ADP	_	21 face	case
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 face	nmod:poss
19	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 face	amod
20	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 face	amod
21	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lay	obl
22	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 face	acl
23	to	to	ADP	_	25 sky	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 sky	det
25	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 turned	obl
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 slept	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 slept	cc
28	though	though	SCONJ	_	30 slept	mark
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 slept	nsubj
30	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 slept	conj
31	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 eyes	nmod:poss
32	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 open	nsubj
33	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 open	cop
34	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 open	advmod
35	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 slept	ccomp
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 slept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sleep	past	the youngest	two sisters		between two	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sister=Theme
2	lie	past	two		two's back	with two's beautiful sad face	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on back=Location
3	turn	participle		two's beautiful sad face not said here	the sky		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to sky=Trajectory
4	sleep	past	two				vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is	past	two's eyes			open 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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