The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 1, sentence 57
So he lay down as if he had fallen into a deep sleep.
Who acts: Hunter · What happens: lie down, fall · To what, where: deep sleep
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hunter), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 lay | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 lay | nsubj |
| 3 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | down | down | ADV | _ | 3 lay | advmod |
| 5 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 fallen | mark |
| 6 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 9 fallen | mark |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 fallen | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 fallen | aux |
| 9 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 lay | advcl |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 sleep | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 sleep | det |
| 12 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 sleep | amod |
| 13 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fallen | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie down | past | Hunter | down property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | fall | past · perfect | Hunter | into a deep sleep result | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into sleep=Result |
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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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