The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter I, sentence 53
The relief from pain and hunger made me drowsy, and presently I fell asleep.
Who acts: relief, I · What happens: make, fall · To what, where: me
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 (relief, I), 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 | 2 relief | det |
| 2 | relief | relief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 made | nsubj |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 pain | case |
| 4 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 relief | nmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 hunger | cc |
| 6 | hunger | hunger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pain | conj |
| 7 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 made | obj |
| 9 | drowsy | drowsy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 made | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 fell | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 fell | cc |
| 12 | presently | presently | ADV | _ | 14 fell | advmod |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 fell | nsubj |
| 14 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 made | conj |
| 15 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 fell | xcomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | the relief from pain and hunger | me | drowsy property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset i=Product | |||
| 2 | fall | past | I | asleep, presently property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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