The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1, sentence 26
He climbed to the top of a hill and lay down in the grass, and as he thought under the shadow of a big tree.
Who acts: Ferko · What happens: climb, lay down, think, shadow · To what, where: top, grass, shadow, big tree
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), 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 (Ferko), 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 climbed | nsubj |
| 2 | climbed | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 top | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 top | det |
| 5 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 climbed | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 hill | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 hill | det |
| 8 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 top | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 lay | cc |
| 10 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 climbed | conj |
| 11 | down | down | ADV | _ | 10 lay | advmod |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 grass | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 grass | det |
| 14 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lay | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 thought | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 thought | cc |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 thought | mark |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 thought | nsubj |
| 19 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 climbed | conj |
| 20 | under | under | ADP | _ | 22 shadow | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 shadow | det |
| 22 | shadow | shadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 thought | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 tree | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 tree | det |
| 25 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 tree | amod |
| 26 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 shadow | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 climbed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | climb | past | Ferko | the top of a hill | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to top=Destination | ||||
| 2 | lay down | infinitive | Ferko not said here | the grass | down property | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in grass=Destination | |||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | Ferko | the shadow of a big tree | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | shadow | a big tree | nom shadow «state 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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