The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 5, sentence 9

When night approached she lay down, but though she shut her eyes tight sleep would not come.

Who acts: night, Princess · What happens: approach, lay down, shut, not come · To what, where: eyes

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (night, Princess), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 approached	advmod
2	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 approached	nsubj
3	approached	approach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 lay	nsubj
5	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 approached	xcomp
6	down	down	ADP	_	5 lay	compound:prt
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 come	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 come	cc
9	though	though	SCONJ	_	11 shut	mark
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 shut	nsubj
11	shut	shut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 come	advcl
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 eyes	nmod:poss
13	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 shut	obj
14	tight	tight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 sleep	amod
15	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 shut	obj
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 come	aux
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 come	advmod
18	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 approached	conj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 approached	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	approach	past	night		tree rules
2	lay down	infinitive	Princess		vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	shut	past	Princess	Princess's eyes	tree rules
4	not come	would	night not said here		vn escape-51.1-1 «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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/18/9/