The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 64
After he had lain for a little he took a little pull at this, and then another and another, and he thought this did him good, and soon he was sleeping sweetly, and dreaming that he was in heaven.
Who acts: carpenter, this · What happens: lie, take, think, do, sleep, dream · To what, where: little pull, this, carpenter, heaven · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (carpenter, this), 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 4 lain | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 lain | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 lain | aux |
| 4 | lain | lie | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 took | advcl |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 little | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 little | det |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 lain | obl |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 took | nsubj |
| 9 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 pull | det |
| 11 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 pull | amod |
| 12 | pull | pull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 took | obj |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 this | case |
| 14 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 pull | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 another | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 another | cc |
| 17 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 another | advmod |
| 18 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 took | conj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 another | cc |
| 20 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 another | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 thought | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 thought | cc |
| 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 | 9 took | conj |
| 25 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 did | nsubj |
| 26 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 thought | ccomp |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 did | obj |
| 28 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 did | xcomp |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 sleeping | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 sleeping | cc |
| 31 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 34 sleeping | advmod |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 sleeping | nsubj |
| 33 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 sleeping | aux |
| 34 | sleeping | sleep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 took | conj |
| 35 | sweetly | sweetly | ADV | _ | 34 sleeping | advmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 dreaming | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 dreaming | cc |
| 38 | dreaming | dream | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 took | advcl |
| 39 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 43 heaven | mark |
| 40 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 heaven | nsubj |
| 41 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 heaven | cop |
| 42 | in | in | ADP | _ | 43 heaven | case |
| 43 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 dreaming | advcl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | past · perfect | carpenter | for a little | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | take | past | carpenter | a little pull | this | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent pull=Theme at this=Asset | |||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | carpenter | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | do | past | this | carpenter | good property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality | |||
| 5 | sleep | past · progressive | carpenter | soon, sweetly property | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | dream | gerund | carpenter not said here | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | is | past | carpenter | heaven | tree rules |
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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