The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 87

They sat down quietly for a little, as they were tired after their drive; then they had supper together, and lay down to rest.

Who acts: words · What happens: sit down, be, supper, lay down, rest, drive

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 (words), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sat	nsubj
2	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	down	down	ADP	_	2 sat	compound:prt
4	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	2 sat	advmod
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 little	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 little	det
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 sat	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 tired	punct
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 tired	mark
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 tired	nsubj
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 tired	cop
12	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 sat	parataxis
13	after	after	ADP	_	15 drive	case
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 drive	nmod:poss
15	drive	drive	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tired	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 supper	punct
17	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 supper	advmod
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 supper	nsubj
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 supper	aux
20	supper	supper	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 sat	parataxis
21	together	together	ADV	_	20 supper	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 lay	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 lay	cc
24	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 supper	conj
25	down	down	ADV	_	24 lay	advmod
26	to	to	PART	_	27 rest	mark
27	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 lay	advcl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	sit down	past	words = word		for a little; quietly property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	words = word	after words's drive	tired property	tree rules
3	supper	past · perfect	words = word	then	together property	tree rules
4	lay down	infinitive	words = word not said here		down property	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	rest	to-infinitive	words = word not said here			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	drive		words = word			nom drive «act transitive»: 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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