The Violet Fairy Book, The Underground Workers, sentence 4

So he tucked his legs snugly under him like a hedgehog, rolled himself up in his sheepskin, and went to sleep.

Who acts: man · What happens: tuck, roll up, go · To what, where: legs, man, sheepskin, sleep

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 (man), 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 tucked	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 tucked	nsubj
3	tucked	tuck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 legs	nmod:poss
5	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 tucked	obj
6	snugly	snugly	ADV	_	3 tucked	advmod
7	under	under	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 tucked	obl
9	like	like	ADP	_	11 hedgehog	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 hedgehog	det
11	hedgehog	hedgehog	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tucked	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 rolled	punct
13	rolled	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 tucked	conj
14	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	13 rolled	obj
15	up	up	ADP	_	13 rolled	compound:prt
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 sheepskin	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 sheepskin	nmod:poss
18	sheepskin	sheepskin	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 rolled	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 went	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 went	cc
21	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 tucked	conj
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 sleep	case
23	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 went	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 tucked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	tuck	past	man	man's legs		under sun; like a hedgehog; snugly property	vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent leg=Theme under he=Trajectory
2	roll up	past	man not said here	man	man's sheepskin		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent himself=Theme in sheepskin=Trajectory
3	go	past	man not said here		sleep		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to sleep=Initial_Location

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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