The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter I, sentence 19

I lay down on the grass, which was very short and soft, and slept sounder than ever I did in my life for about nine hours.

Who acts: I, grass · What happens: lay down, be, sleep, do · To what, where: grass, life

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, grass), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 lay	nsubj
2	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	down	down	ADV	_	2 lay	advmod
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 grass	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 grass	det
6	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lay	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 short	punct
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 short	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 short	cop
10	very	very	ADV	_	11 short	advmod
11	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 grass	parataxis
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 soft	cc
13	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 short	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 slept	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 slept	cc
16	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 lay	advcl
17	sounder	sound	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	16 slept	xcomp
18	than	than	SCONJ	_	21 did	mark
19	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	21 did	advmod
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 did	nsubj
21	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 sounder	advcl
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 life	case
23	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 life	nmod:poss
24	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 did	obl
25	for	for	ADP	_	28 hours	case
26	about	about	ADV	_	27 nine	advmod
27	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 hours	nummod
28	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 did	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	lay down	present	I	the grass		down property	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on grass=Destination
2	is	past	the grass			short property	tree rules
3	be		the grass not said here				tree rules
4	sleep	past	I not said here			sound property	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	do	past	I	my life	ever; hour		vn act-114-1 «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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