The Red Fairy Book, Brother and Sister, sentence 39

In the evening, when sister was tired, she said her prayers and then laid her head on the fawn’s back and fell sound asleep with it as a pillow.

Who acts: sister · What happens: be, say, lay, fall, sound, pray · To what, where: prayers, head, back · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Brother and Sister. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sister), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 evening	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 evening	det
3	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tired	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 evening	punct
5	when	when	SCONJ	_	8 tired	mark
6	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tired	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 tired	cop
8	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 said	nsubj
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 tired	parataxis
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 prayers	nmod:poss
13	prayers	prayer	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 said	obj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 laid	cc
15	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 laid	advmod
16	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 said	conj
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 head	nmod:poss
18	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 laid	obj
19	on	on	ADP	_	23 back	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 fawn	det
21	fawn	fawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 back	nmod:poss
22	’s	's	PART	_	21 fawn	case
23	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 laid	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 fell	cc
25	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 said	conj
26	sound	sound	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 fell	xcomp
27	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 sound	xcomp
28	with	with	ADP	_	29 it	case
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 sound	obl
30	as	as	ADP	_	32 pillow	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 pillow	det
32	pillow	pillow	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 sound	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 tired	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	sister			evening	tired property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	sister	sister's prayers				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent prayer=Topic
3	lay	past	sister not said here	sister's head	the fawn's back	then		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme on back=Destination
4	fall	past	sister not said here					vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	sound	infinitive	sister not said here				with fawn; as a pillow; asleep property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with it=Theme
6	pray		sister					nom prayer «act intransitive»: poss=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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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