The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1, sentence 71

Having said this she flew merrily away, and Ferko, reassured by her words, lay down on the grass and slept peacefully till the next morning.

Who acts: this, Ferko, bee · What happens: have, say, fly, reassure, lay down, sleep · To what, where: Ferko, grass · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (this, Ferko, bee), 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	Having	have	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 said	ccomp
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 flew	nsubj
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 flew	nsubj
5	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 said	ccomp
6	merrily	merrily	ADV	_	7 away	advmod
7	away	away	ADV	_	5 flew	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 lay	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 lay	cc
10	Ferko	Ferko	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 lay	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 reassured	punct
12	reassured	reassure	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 Ferko	acl
13	by	by	ADP	_	15 words	case
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 words	nmod:poss
15	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 reassured	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 lay	punct
17	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 flew	conj
18	down	down	ADV	_	17 lay	advmod
19	on	on	ADP	_	21 grass	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 grass	det
21	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 lay	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 slept	cc
23	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 flew	conj
24	peacefully	peacefully	ADV	_	23 slept	advmod
25	till	till	ADP	_	28 morning	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 morning	det
27	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 morning	amod
28	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 slept	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	gerund						vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	fly	past	this				away property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	reassure	participle		Ferko not said here			by bee's words	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
5	lay down	present	Ferko		the grass		down property	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on grass=Destination
6	sleep	past	this not said here			morning	peacefully property	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	word		bee					nom word «communication transitive»: poss=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 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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