The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 138

So she lay down upon it, said her prayers like a good child, and fell fast asleep.

Who acts: SNOWDROP · What happens: lie down, say, fall, pray · To what, where: bed, prayers · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Bushy Bride. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (SNOWDROP), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 lay	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 lay	nsubj
3	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	down	down	ADV	_	3 lay	advmod
5	upon	upon	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 lay	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lay	conj
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 prayers	nmod:poss
10	prayers	prayer	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 said	obj
11	like	like	ADP	_	14 child	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 child	det
13	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 child	amod
14	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 prayers	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 fell	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 fell	cc
17	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lay	conj
18	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	17 fell	advmod
19	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 fell	xcomp
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lie down	past	SNOWDROP		bed	down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon it=Location
2	say speech: assert	past	SNOWDROP not said here	SNOWDROP's prayers		like a good child	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent prayer=Topic
3	fall	past	SNOWDROP not said here			asleep, fast property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	pray		SNOWDROP			like a good child	nom prayer «act intransitive»: poss=agent like=obl

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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