The Violet Fairy Book, The Underground Workers, sentence 71

Then he went to sleep in his chair, and knew nothing of what was happening.

Who acts: friend · What happens: go, sleep, know, happen · To what, where: chair, nothing

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 (friend), 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	3 went	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 sleep	mark
5	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 went	xcomp
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 chair	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 chair	nmod:poss
8	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sleep	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 knew	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 knew	cc
11	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
12	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	11 knew	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 what	case
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 nothing	nmod
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 happening	aux
16	happening	happen	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 what	acl:relcl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	go	past	friend			then	vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	sleep	to-infinitive	friend not said here		friend's chair		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in chair=Location
3	know	past	friend not said here	nothing			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus
4	happen	past · progressive					vn occur-48.3-1 «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 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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