The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 15

After a time Sigurd became so heavy with sleep that he could no longer keep awake, so he went below and lay down, leaving the Queen alone on the deck, playing with her son.

Who acts: Sigurd · What happens: become, keep, go, lay down, leave, play · To what, where: Queen, deck

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sigurd), 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	After	after	ADP	_	3 time	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 time	det
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 became	obl
4	Sigurd	Sigurd	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 became	nsubj
5	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 heavy	advmod
7	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 became	xcomp
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 sleep	case
9	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 heavy	obl
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 keep	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 keep	nsubj
12	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 keep	aux
13	no	no	ADV	_	14 longer	advmod
14	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	15 keep	advmod
15	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 heavy	advcl
16	awake	awake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 keep	xcomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 went	punct
18	so	so	ADV	_	20 went	advmod
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 went	nsubj
20	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 became	conj
21	below	below	ADV	_	20 went	advmod
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 lay	cc
23	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 went	conj
24	down	down	ADP	_	23 lay	compound:prt
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 leaving	punct
26	leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 lay	advcl
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 Queen	det
28	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 leaving	obj
29	alone	alone	ADV	_	26 leaving	advmod
30	on	on	ADP	_	32 deck	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 deck	det
32	deck	deck	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 leaving	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 playing	punct
34	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 lay	advcl
35	with	with	ADP	_	37 son	case
36	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 son	nmod:poss
37	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 playing	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 became	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	past	Sigurd			time	heavy property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	keep	could	Sigurd				awake, long property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	go	past	Sigurd				below property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	lay down	infinitive	Sigurd not said here					vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	leave	gerund	Sigurd not said here	the Queen	the deck		alone property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent queen=Theme on deck=Location
6	play	gerund	Sigurd not said here				with Queen's son	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with son=Co-Agent

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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