The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 31
One very hot evening, after they had been working hard all day, they fell asleep under a tree in front of the hut.
Who acts: brothers · What happens: work, fall · To what, where: One hot evening, tree
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 (brothers), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 evening | nummod |
| 2 | very | very | ADV | _ | 3 hot | advmod |
| 3 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 evening | amod |
| 4 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fell | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 working | punct |
| 6 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 10 working | mark |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 working | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 working | aux |
| 9 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 working | aux |
| 10 | working | work | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 evening | acl:relcl |
| 11 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 working | advmod |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 day | det |
| 13 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 working | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 evening | punct |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 fell | nsubj |
| 16 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 fell | xcomp |
| 18 | under | under | ADP | _ | 20 tree | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 tree | det |
| 20 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fell | obl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 front | case |
| 22 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 tree | nmod |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 hut | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 hut | det |
| 25 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 front | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | work | past · perfect · progressive | brothers = brother | One hot evening not said here | day | hard property | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent evening=Material | ||
| 2 | fall | past | brothers = brother | a tree in front of the hut | evening | asleep property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme under tree=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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