The Yellow Fairy Book, The Blue Mountains, sentence 18
He lay down on one of the beds and fell sound asleep.
Who acts: other · What happens: lie down, fall
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Mountains. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (other), 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 lay | nsubj |
| 2 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | down | down | ADV | _ | 2 lay | advmod |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 one | case |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 lay | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 beds | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 beds | det |
| 8 | beds | bed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 one | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 fell | cc |
| 10 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 lay | conj |
| 11 | sound | sound | ADV | _ | 10 fell | advmod |
| 12 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 fell | xcomp |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie down | past | other | on one of the beds; down property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on one=Location | ||||
| 2 | fall | past | other not said here | asleep, sound 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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