The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 183

Having taken some food, she laid the child down to sleep in a trough that was on the floor, and sat down herself to rest.

Who acts: idea, trough · What happens: have, take, lay down, sleep, be, sit down · To what, where: food, child, trough, floor, idea

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (idea, trough), 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	Having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 laid	advcl
2	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Having	xcomp
3	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	4 food	det
4	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 taken	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Having	punct
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 laid	nsubj
7	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 child	det
9	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 laid	obj
10	down	down	ADV	_	7 laid	advmod
11	to	to	PART	_	12 sleep	mark
12	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 laid	advcl
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 trough	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 trough	det
15	trough	trough	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sleep	obl
16	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 floor	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 floor	cop
18	on	on	ADP	_	20 floor	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 floor	det
20	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 trough	acl:relcl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 sat	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 sat	cc
23	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 laid	conj
24	down	down	ADP	_	23 sat	compound:prt
25	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	23 sat	obl
26	to	to	PART	_	27 rest	mark
27	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 sat	advcl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 laid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	gerund	idea not said here				tree rules
2	take	participle	idea not said here	some food			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme
3	lay down	past	idea	the child		down property	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Result
4	sleep	to-infinitive	idea not said here		a trough		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in trough=Location
5	is	past	a trough		the floor		tree rules
6	sit down	past	idea not said here	idea			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	rest	to-infinitive	idea not said here				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «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 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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