The Red Fairy Book, Soria Moria Castle, sentence 126
Then he let the horse loose and lay down to sleep, but before he did that he took his bag off the horse.
Who acts: Halvor · What happens: let, lay down, sleep, do, take · To what, where: horse, bag
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), 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 let | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 let | nsubj |
| 3 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 horse | det |
| 5 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 let | obj |
| 6 | loose | loose | ADV | _ | 3 let | advmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 lay | cc |
| 8 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 let | conj |
| 9 | down | down | ADV | _ | 8 lay | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 sleep | mark |
| 11 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 lay | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 did | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 did | cc |
| 14 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 16 did | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 did | nsubj |
| 16 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 let | conj |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 took | mark |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 took | nsubj |
| 19 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 did | advcl |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 bag | nmod:poss |
| 21 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 took | obj |
| 22 | off | off | ADP | _ | 24 horse | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 horse | det |
| 24 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 took | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | past | Halvor | the horse | then | loose property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme | ||
| 2 | lay down | infinitive | Halvor not said here | down property | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | sleep | to-infinitive | Halvor not said here | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | do | past | Halvor | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | take | past | Halvor | Halvor's bag | off the horse | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent bag=Theme off horse=Initial_Location |
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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