The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 2, sentence 75

He wandered about all day full of despair and misery, and when he lay down at night he could get no rest, but lay awake all night sunk in sorrowful thoughts.

Who acts: miller · What happens: wander, lie down, get, lie, sink · To what, where: rest, night, sorrowful thoughts

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, 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 (miller), 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 wandered	nsubj
2	wandered	wander	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	about	about	ADP	_	5 day	case
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 day	det
5	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wandered	obl
6	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 day	amod
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 despair	case
8	despair	despair	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 full	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 misery	cc
10	misery	misery	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 despair	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 lay	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 lay	cc
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 lay	advmod
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 lay	nsubj
15	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wandered	parataxis
16	down	down	ADV	_	15 lay	advmod
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 night	case
18	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 lay	obl
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 get	nsubj
20	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 get	aux
21	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 lay	ccomp
22	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	23 rest	det
23	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 get	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 lay	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 lay	cc
26	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wandered	parataxis
27	awake	awake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 lay	xcomp
28	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	29 night	det
29	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 lay	obl:unmarked
30	sunk	sink	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 night	acl
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 thoughts	case
32	sorrowful	sorrowful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 thoughts	amod
33	thoughts	thought	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 sunk	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wandered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wander	past	miller			day		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	lie down	past	miller			night	down property	tree rules
3	get	could	miller	no rest				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rest=Stimulus
4	lie	past				night	awake property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	sink	participle		all night not said here	sorrowful thoughts			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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