The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 26
Thus speaking, he laid himself down, and died quietly.
Who acts: man · What happens: speak, lay down, die · To what, where: man · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 2 speaking | advmod |
| 2 | speaking | speak | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 laid | advcl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 speaking | punct |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 laid | nsubj |
| 5 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 laid | obj |
| 7 | down | down | ADP | _ | 5 laid | compound:prt |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 died | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 died | cc |
| 10 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 laid | conj |
| 11 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 10 died | advmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 laid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | gerund | man not said here | thus property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | lay down | past | man | man | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Result | ||||
| 3 | die | past | man not said here | quietly property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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