The Violet Fairy Book, The Nunda, Eater of People, sentence 218
And after they had eaten and were filled, they lay down and slept till morning.
Who acts: legs · What happens: eat, fill, lay down, sleep
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nunda, Eater of People. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (legs), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 lay | cc |
| 2 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 5 eaten | mark |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 eaten | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 eaten | aux |
| 5 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 lay | advcl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 filled | cc |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 filled | aux:pass |
| 8 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 eaten | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 eaten | punct |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 lay | nsubj |
| 11 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | down | down | ADV | _ | 11 lay | advmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 slept | cc |
| 14 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 lay | conj |
| 15 | till | till | ADP | _ | 16 morning | case |
| 16 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 slept | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | past · perfect | legs = leg | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | fill | past · passive | legs = leg not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V» | |||||
| 3 | lay down | present | legs = leg | down property | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | sleep | past | legs = leg not said here | morning | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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