The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 114

His face was resting on his hands, and his white beard flowed over the table almost down to the ground.

Who acts: face, white beard · What happens: rest, flow · To what, where: hands, table

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (face, white beard), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 face	nmod:poss
2	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 resting	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 resting	aux
4	resting	rest	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 hands	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 hands	nmod:poss
7	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 resting	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 flowed	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 flowed	cc
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 beard	nmod:poss
11	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 beard	amod
12	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 flowed	nsubj
13	flowed	flow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 resting	conj
14	over	over	ADP	_	16 table	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 table	det
16	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 flowed	obl
17	almost	almost	ADV	_	18 down	advmod
18	down	down	ADV	_	13 flowed	advmod
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 ground	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 ground	det
21	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 down	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 resting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rest	past · progressive	man's face			man's hands			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on hand=Location
2	flow	participle	man's white beard			the table		down property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over table=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 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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