The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 3

‘Now I can have a proper meal,’ he thought, and after drinking some water at a well he lay down and slept so long that it was sunrise before he woke again.

Who acts: I, man, water · What happens: have, think, drink, lie down, sleep, be · To what, where: proper meal, water, well, sunrise · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of a Gazelle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, man, water), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	5 have	punct
2	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 have	advmod
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 have	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 have	aux
5	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 thought	ccomp
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 meal	det
7	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 meal	amod
8	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 have	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 have	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 have	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 thought	nsubj
12	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 lay	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 lay	cc
15	after	after	SCONJ	_	16 drinking	mark
16	drinking	drink	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 lay	advcl
17	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	18 water	det
18	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 drinking	obj
19	at	at	ADP	_	21 well	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 well	det
21	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 drinking	obl
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 lay	nsubj
23	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 thought	parataxis
24	down	down	ADV	_	23 lay	advmod
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 slept	cc
26	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 lay	conj
27	so	so	ADV	_	28 long	advmod
28	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 slept	advmod
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 sunrise	mark
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 sunrise	nsubj
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 sunrise	cop
32	sunrise	sunrise	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 long	advcl
33	before	before	SCONJ	_	35 woke	mark
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 woke	nsubj
35	woke	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 slept	advcl
36	again	again	ADV	_	35 woke	advmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	can	I	a proper meal		now		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meal=Patient
2	think speech: other	past	man					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	drink	gerund	man not said here	some water	a well			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient
4	lie down	past	man				down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	sleep	past	man not said here					vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is a	past	water	sunrise				tree rules
7	wake	past	man			again		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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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