The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 22

He lay down where he was and fell asleep, and did not awake before it was bright daylight, and he heard steps outside, and the noise of the key being put into the lock.

Who acts: Christian, clock, key · What happens: lie down, be, fall, not awake, hear, put · To what, where: steps, noise, lock

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Christian, clock, key), 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	ADP	_	2 lay	compound:prt
4	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	6 was	advmod
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 was	nsubj
6	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 lay	advcl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 fell	cc
8	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 lay	conj
9	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 fell	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 awake	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 awake	cc
12	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 awake	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 awake	advmod
14	awake	awake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 lay	advcl
15	before	before	ADP	_	19 daylight	case
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 daylight	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 daylight	cop
18	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 daylight	amod
19	daylight	daylight	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 awake	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 heard	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 heard	cc
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 heard	nsubj
23	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 lay	parataxis
24	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 heard	obj
25	outside	outside	ADV	_	23 heard	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 put	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 put	cc
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 noise	det
29	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 put	nsubj:pass
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 key	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 key	det
32	key	key	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 noise	nmod
33	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	34 put	aux:pass
34	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 heard	conj
35	into	into	ADP	_	37 lock	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 lock	det
37	lock	lock	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 put	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie down	past	Christian					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	be	past	Christian					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	fall	past	Christian not said here				asleep property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	not awake	past · do-support	Christian not said here					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is	past	clock			before bright daylight		tree rules
6	hear	past	Christian	steps			outside property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer step=Stimulus
7	put	gerund · passive		the noise of the key	the lock			vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal
8	noise		the key					nom noise «event intransitive»: of=agent

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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