The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1, sentence 32
But, half way home, a great drowsiness came over him; he put down his pitcher, lay down, and fell asleep.
Who acts: great drowsiness, wind · What happens: come, put down, lay down, fall · To what, where: half way, pitcher
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, 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 (great drowsiness, wind), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 came | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 way | punct |
| 3 | half | half | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 4 way | amod |
| 4 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 came | obl |
| 5 | home | home | ADV | _ | 4 way | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 way | punct |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 drowsiness | det |
| 8 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 drowsiness | amod |
| 9 | drowsiness | drowsiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 came | nsubj |
| 10 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | over | over | ADP | _ | 12 him | case |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 came | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 put | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 put | nsubj |
| 15 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 came | conj |
| 16 | down | down | ADP | _ | 15 put | compound:prt |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 pitcher | nmod:poss |
| 18 | pitcher | pitcher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 put | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 lay | punct |
| 20 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 put | advcl |
| 21 | down | down | ADV | _ | 20 lay | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 fell | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 fell | cc |
| 24 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 came | conj |
| 25 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 fell | xcomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | a great drowsiness | half way | over wind | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme over he=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | put down | past | wind | wind's pitcher | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent pitcher=Goal | ||||
| 3 | lay down | infinitive | wind not said here | down property | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | fall | past | a great drowsiness not said here | asleep 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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