The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 13

He lay down on the bench, and, tired as he was, he soon fell asleep.

Who acts: king · What happens: lie down, be, fall · To what, where: bench

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lay	nsubj
2	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	down	down	ADV	_	2 lay	advmod
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 bench	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bench	det
6	bench	bench	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lay	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 tired	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 tired	cc
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 tired	punct
10	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 lay	parataxis
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 was	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 was	nsubj
13	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 tired	advcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 fell	punct
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 fell	nsubj
16	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	17 fell	advmod
17	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 lay	conj
18	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 fell	xcomp
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	lie down	past	king	the bench	down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bench=Location
2	be	past	king			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	fall	past	king		asleep, soon 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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