The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 2, sentence 9

He made himself a bed of grass and leaves, lit a fire of dry branches, and slept soundly till the next morning.

Who acts: Iwanich · What happens: make, light, sleep, fire · To what, where: Iwanich, fire, dry branches

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), 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 (Iwanich), 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 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 made	obj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 bed	det
5	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 made	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 grass	case
7	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bed	nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 leaves	cc
9	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 grass	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 lit	punct
11	lit	light	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 made	conj
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 fire	det
13	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lit	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 branches	case
15	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 branches	amod
16	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 fire	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 slept	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 slept	cc
19	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 made	parataxis
20	soundly	soundly	ADV	_	19 slept	advmod
21	till	till	ADP	_	24 morning	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 morning	det
23	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 morning	amod
24	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 slept	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	Iwanich	Iwanich			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset himself=Beneficiary bed=Product
2	light	past	Iwanich not said here	a fire of dry branches			vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Product
3	sleep	past			morning	soundly property	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	fire			dry branches			nom fire «event transitive»: of=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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