The Red Fairy Book, Soria Moria Castle, sentence 113

So Halvor laid his head down on her lap, and she combed it, and it was not long before he fell asleep.

Who acts: Halvor, Princess, lap · What happens: lay down, comb, not be, fall · To what, where: head, lap

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Soria Moria Castle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Halvor, Princess, lap), 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 laid	advmod
2	Halvor	Halvor	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 laid	nsubj
3	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 head	nmod:poss
5	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 laid	obj
6	down	down	ADV	_	3 laid	advmod
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 lap	case
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 lap	nmod:poss
9	lap	lap	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 laid	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 combed	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 combed	cc
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 combed	nsubj
13	combed	comb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 laid	conj
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 combed	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 long	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 long	cc
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 long	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 long	cop
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 long	advmod
20	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 combed	advmod
21	before	before	SCONJ	_	23 fell	mark
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 fell	nsubj
23	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 long	advcl
24	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 fell	xcomp
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 laid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lay down	past	Halvor	Halvor's head	Princess's lap	down property	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme on lap=Destination
2	comb	past	Princess	lap			vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
3	not is	past	lap			long property	tree rules
4	fall	past	Halvor			asleep property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=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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