The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1, sentence 94

There he lay on the old woman’s sofa and stared about him in surprise.

Who acts: smell · What happens: lie, stare · To what, where: sofa, surprise

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (smell), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 lay	expl
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 lay	nsubj
3	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	9 sofa	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 woman	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 woman	amod
7	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sofa	nmod:poss
8	’s	's	PART	_	7 woman	case
9	sofa	sofa	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lay	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 stared	cc
11	stared	stare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lay	conj
12	about	about	ADP	_	13 him	case
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 stared	obl
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 surprise	case
15	surprise	surprise	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 stared	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	past	smell			the old woman's sofa; there			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on sofa=Location
2	stare	past	smell not said here			surprise		about smell	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent about he=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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