The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flying Ship(24), sentence 90

So he threw himself down on the grass, and, as the sun was very dazzling, he closed his eyes, and in a few seconds had fallen sound asleep.

Who acts: King, sun · What happens: throw down, be, close, fall · To what, where: King, grass, eyes

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Flying Ship(24). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, sun), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 threw	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 threw	nsubj
3	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 threw	obj
5	down	down	ADP	_	3 threw	compound:prt
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 grass	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 grass	det
8	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 threw	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 closed	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 closed	cc
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 and	punct
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 dazzling	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 sun	det
14	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 dazzling	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 dazzling	cop
16	very	very	ADV	_	17 dazzling	advmod
17	dazzling	dazzling	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 closed	advcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 dazzling	punct
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 closed	nsubj
20	closed	close	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 threw	conj
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 eyes	nmod:poss
22	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 closed	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 fallen	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 fallen	cc
25	in	in	ADP	_	28 seconds	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 seconds	det
27	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 seconds	amod
28	seconds	second	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 fallen	obl
29	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 fallen	aux
30	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 threw	conj
31	sound	sound	ADV	_	32 asleep	advmod
32	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 fallen	xcomp
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 threw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw down	past	King	King	the grass			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent himself=Theme on grass=Destination
2	is	past	the sun				dazzling property	tree rules
3	close	past	King	King's eyes				vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient
4	fall	past · perfect	King not said here			second	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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