The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 8

One morning about the middle of August, just at mid-day when the sun was hottest, Michael ate his dinner of a piece of dry bread, and went to sleep under an oak.

Who acts: sun, Michael · What happens: be, eat, go, sleep · To what, where: dinner, oak

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Dancing Princesses. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun, Michael), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 morning	nummod
2	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 ate	obl:unmarked
3	about	about	ADP	_	5 middle	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 middle	det
5	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 morning	nmod
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 August	case
7	August	August	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 middle	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 mid-day	punct
9	just	just	ADV	_	11 mid-day	advmod
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 mid-day	case
11	mid-day	mid-day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 morning	conj
12	when	when	SCONJ	_	16 hottest	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 sun	det
14	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 hottest	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 hottest	cop
16	hottest	hot	ADJ	Degree=Sup	11 mid-day	appos
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 morning	punct
18	Michael	Michael	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 ate	nsubj
19	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 dinner	nmod:poss
21	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 ate	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 piece	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 piece	det
24	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 dinner	nmod
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 bread	case
26	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 bread	amod
27	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 piece	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 went	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 went	cc
30	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 ate	conj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 sleep	mark
32	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 went	xcomp
33	under	under	ADP	_	35 oak	case
34	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 oak	det
35	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 sleep	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 ate	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the sun				hot property	tree rules
2	eat	past	Michael	Michael's dinner of a piece of dry bread		morning		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dinner=Patient
3	go	past	Michael not said here					vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	sleep	to-infinitive	Michael not said here		a oak			vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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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