The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 95
Hans, however, lay and slept on, and the squire said, ‘Just let him lie.’
Who acts: Hans, squire · What happens: lay, sleep on, say, let, lie · To what, where: squire · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hans, squire), 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 | Hans | han | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 lay | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Hans | punct |
| 3 | however | however | ADV | _ | 5 lay | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 however | punct |
| 5 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 slept | cc |
| 7 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 lay | conj |
| 8 | on | on | ADV | _ | 7 slept | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 said | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 squire | det |
| 12 | squire | squire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | nsubj |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 lay | advcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 let | punct |
| 15 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 let | punct |
| 16 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 17 let | advmod |
| 17 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | ccomp |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 let | obj |
| 19 | lie | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 let | xcomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 let | punct |
| 21 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay | present | Hans | however property | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | sleep on | past | Hans not said here | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the squire | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | let | infinitive | squire | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | lie | infinitive | squire not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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