The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 1, sentence 73
The Hunter now lay down and slept off his weariness.
Who acts: Hunter · What happens: lie down, sleep off · To what, where: weariness
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Hunter | det |
| 2 | Hunter | Hunter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 lay | nsubj |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 lay | advmod |
| 4 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | down | down | ADV | _ | 4 lay | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 slept | cc |
| 7 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 lay | conj |
| 8 | off | off | ADP | _ | 7 slept | compound:prt |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 weariness | nmod:poss |
| 10 | weariness | weariness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 slept | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie down | past | the Hunter | now | down property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | sleep off | past | the Hunter not said here | Hunter's weariness | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weariness=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 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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