The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 56

As he now lay out there in the middle of the lake, and it was pretty late in the evening, he thought he would have something to eat first, before starting to work.

Who acts: Hans, middle · What happens: lie, be, think, have, eat, start · To what, where: middle, something · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hans, middle), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	4 lay	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lay	nsubj
3	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 lay	advmod
4	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 thought	advcl
5	out	out	ADV	_	6 there	advmod
6	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 lay	advmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 middle	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 middle	det
9	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lay	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 lake	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 lake	det
12	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 middle	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 evening	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 evening	cc
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 evening	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 evening	cop
17	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	18 late	advmod
18	late	late	ADV	Degree=Pos	21 evening	advmod
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 evening	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 evening	det
21	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lay	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 lay	punct
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 thought	nsubj
24	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 have	nsubj
26	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 have	aux
27	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 thought	ccomp
28	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	27 have	obj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 eat	mark
30	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 something	acl
31	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	30 eat	advmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 starting	punct
33	before	before	SCONJ	_	34 starting	mark
34	starting	start	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 eat	advcl
35	to	to	PART	_	36 work	mark
36	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 starting	xcomp
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	past	Hans		the middle of the lake; there	now		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in middle=Location
2	is	past	middle			in the evening	late property	tree rules
3	think speech: other	past	Hans					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	have	would	Hans	something				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient
5	eat	to-infinitive	Hans not said here	something not said here			first property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	start	gerund	Hans not said here					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
7	work	to-infinitive	Hans not said here					vn employment-95.3 «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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