The Red Fairy Book, The Seven Foals, sentence 37
So there he sat with his head on her lap, taking his ease the livelong day.
Who acts: Master · What happens: sit, take · To what, where: lap, ease
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Seven Foals. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Master), 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 | _ | 2 there | advmod |
| 2 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 sat | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sat | nsubj |
| 4 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 head | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 head | nmod:poss |
| 7 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sat | obl |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 lap | case |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 lap | nmod:poss |
| 10 | lap | lap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sat | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 taking | punct |
| 12 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 sat | advcl |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 ease | nmod:poss |
| 14 | ease | ease | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 taking | obj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 day | det |
| 16 | livelong | livelong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 day | amod |
| 17 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 taking | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | Master | hag's lap; there | with Master's head | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on lap=Location | |||
| 2 | take | gerund | Master not said here | Master's ease | day | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ease=Theme |
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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