The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2, sentence 67

So the Prince drank his fill, and then, by the command of the Little Green Frog, he lay down on the grass to rest himself.

Who acts: Prince, bird · What happens: drink, lie down, rest, command · To what, where: fill, grass, bird, Little Green Frog · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, bird), 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	_	4 drank	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Prince	det
3	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 drank	nsubj
4	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 fill	nmod:poss
6	fill	fill	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 drank	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 lay	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 lay	cc
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 lay	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 then	punct
11	by	by	ADP	_	13 command	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 command	det
13	command	command	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 lay	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	18 Frog	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Frog	det
16	Little	Little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 Frog	amod
17	Green	Green	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Frog	compound
18	Frog	Frog	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 command	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 command	punct
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 lay	nsubj
21	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 drank	conj
22	down	down	ADV	_	21 lay	advmod
23	on	on	ADP	_	25 grass	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 grass	det
25	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 lay	obl
26	to	to	PART	_	27 rest	mark
27	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 lay	advcl
28	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	27 rest	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 drank	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drink	past	the Prince	bird's fill				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fill=Patient
2	lie down	past	bird		the grass	then	by the command of the Little Green Frog; down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by command=Location
3	rest	to-infinitive	bird not said here	bird				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location himself=Theme
4	command			the Little Green Frog				nom command «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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