The Red Fairy Book, The Money Bags., sentence 20

Then he swept them all back into their bags, and leaning back in his chair fell fast asleep, snoring so loud that no other sound was audible.

Who acts: leave, leaning, other sound · What happens: sweep, lean back, fall, snore, be · To what, where: heaps, bags, chair

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Money Bags.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (leave, leaning, other sound), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 swept	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 swept	nsubj
3	swept	sweep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 swept	obj
5	all	all	ADV	_	6 back	advmod
6	back	back	ADV	_	3 swept	advmod
7	into	into	ADP	_	9 bags	case
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 bags	nmod:poss
9	bags	bag	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 swept	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 fell	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 fell	cc
12	leaning	lean	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 fell	csubj
13	back	back	ADV	_	12 leaning	advmod
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 chair	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 chair	nmod:poss
16	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 leaning	obl
17	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 swept	conj
18	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	17 fell	advmod
19	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 fell	xcomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 snoring	punct
21	snoring	snore	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 fell	advcl
22	so	so	ADV	_	23 loud	advmod
23	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 snoring	xcomp
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 audible	mark
25	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	27 sound	det
26	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 sound	amod
27	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 audible	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 audible	cop
29	audible	audible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 loud	advcl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 swept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sweep	past	leave	heaps = heap	heaps's bags	then		vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme into bag=Destination
2	lean back	gerund			leave's chair			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in chair=Location
3	fall	past	leaning				asleep, fast property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	snore	gerund	leaning not said here				loud property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is	past	no other sound				audible property	tree rules

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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