The Violet Fairy Book, The Underground Workers, sentence 19
Then, after a hot drink which warmed both their hearts, they lay down on the ground.
Who acts: plants · What happens: warm, lay down · To what, where: hearts, ground
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Underground Workers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (plants), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 warmed | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Then | punct |
| 3 | after | after | ADP | _ | 6 drink | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 drink | det |
| 5 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 drink | amod |
| 6 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 warmed | obl |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 warmed | nsubj |
| 8 | warmed | warm | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 hearts | det:predet |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 hearts | nmod:poss |
| 11 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 warmed | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 lay | punct |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 lay | nsubj |
| 14 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 warmed | advcl |
| 15 | down | down | ADV | _ | 14 lay | advmod |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 ground | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 ground | det |
| 18 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lay | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 warmed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | warm | past | plants's hearts | after a hot drink; then | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent heart=Patient | ||||
| 2 | lay down | present | plants = plant | the ground | down property | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on ground=Destination |
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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