The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 86

It was too late to attempt anything now; and, besides, the poor youth was very tired, so he lay down on the ground and fell fast asleep.

Who acts: It, poor youth, youth · What happens: be, attempt, lie down, fall · To what, where: anything, ground

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, poor youth, youth), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 late	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 late	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 late	advmod
4	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 attempt	mark
6	attempt	attempt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 late	csubj
7	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 attempt	obj
8	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 attempt	advmod
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 tired	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 tired	cc
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 and	punct
12	besides	besides	INTJ	_	19 tired	discourse
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 besides	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 youth	det
15	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 youth	amod
16	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 tired	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 tired	cop
18	very	very	ADV	_	19 tired	advmod
19	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 late	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 lay	punct
21	so	so	ADV	_	23 lay	advmod
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 lay	nsubj
23	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 late	parataxis
24	down	down	ADV	_	23 lay	advmod
25	on	on	ADP	_	27 ground	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 ground	det
27	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 lay	obl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 fell	cc
29	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 lay	conj
30	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	29 fell	advmod
31	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 fell	xcomp
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 late	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	It				late property	tree rules
2	attempt	to-infinitive		anything		now		vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Eventuality
3	is	past	the poor youth				tired property	tree rules
4	lie down	past	youth		the ground		down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on ground=Location
5	fall	past	youth not said here				asleep, fast 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 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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