The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2, sentence 32

He lay down once more on the grass and soon fell fast asleep.

Who acts: youth · What happens: lie down, fall · To what, where: grass

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), 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 (youth), 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 lay	nsubj
2	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	down	down	ADV	_	2 lay	advmod
4	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 more	advmod
5	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 lay	advmod
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 grass	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 grass	det
8	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lay	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 fell	cc
10	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 fell	advmod
11	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 lay	conj
12	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 fell	advmod
13	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 fell	xcomp
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie down	past	youth			the grass		down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on grass=Location
2	fall	past	youth not said here					asleep, fast, soon property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=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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