The Red Fairy Book, The Hen That Lays Golden Eggs., sentence 16
By-and-by the Giant put the hen down on the floor, and soon after went fast asleep, snoring so loud that it sounded like thunder.
Who acts: you, fairy · What happens: put down, go, snore, sound · To what, where: hen, floor
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Hen That Lays Golden Eggs.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, fairy), 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 2 - | case |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 put | punct |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 put | cc |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 and | punct |
| 5 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 7 Giant | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Giant | det |
| 7 | Giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 put | advcl |
| 8 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 hen | det |
| 10 | hen | hen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 put | obj |
| 11 | down | down | ADP | _ | 8 put | compound:prt |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 floor | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 floor | det |
| 14 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 put | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 went | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 went | cc |
| 17 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 went | advmod |
| 18 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 19 went | mark |
| 19 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 put | parataxis |
| 20 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 went | advmod |
| 21 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 went | xcomp |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 snoring | punct |
| 23 | snoring | snore | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 went | advcl |
| 24 | so | so | ADV | _ | 25 loud | advmod |
| 25 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 snoring | xcomp |
| 26 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 sounded | mark |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 sounded | nsubj |
| 28 | sounded | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 loud | advcl |
| 29 | like | like | ADP | _ | 30 thunder | case |
| 30 | thunder | thunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 sounded | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put down | imperative | you not said here | the hen | the floor | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent hen=Theme on floor=Destination | |||
| 2 | go | past | asleep, fast, soon property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | snore | gerund | loud property | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | sound | past | fairy | like thunder | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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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