The Violet Fairy Book, The Nunda, Eater of People, sentence 30

The lad answered: ‘I watched the date tree till the cocks were crowing and it was getting light; then I lay down for a little, and I slept.

Who acts: lad, I, cocks, bird · What happens: answer, watch, crow, get, lie down, sleep · To what, where: date tree, light · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (lad, I, cocks, bird), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 lad	det
2	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 answered	nsubj
3	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 watched	punct
5	‘	'	PUNCT	_	7 watched	punct
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 watched	nsubj
7	watched	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 answered	ccomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 tree	det
9	date	date	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tree	compound
10	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 watched	obj
11	till	till	SCONJ	_	15 crowing	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 cocks	det
13	cocks	cock	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 crowing	nsubj
14	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 crowing	aux
15	crowing	crow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 watched	advcl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 getting	cc
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 getting	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 getting	aux
19	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 crowing	conj
20	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 getting	obj
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 lay	punct
22	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 lay	advmod
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 lay	nsubj
24	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 answered	parataxis
25	down	down	ADV	_	24 lay	advmod
26	for	for	ADP	_	28 little	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 little	det
28	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 lay	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 slept	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 slept	cc
31	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 slept	nsubj
32	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 lay	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	the lad				tree rules
2	watch	past	I	the date tree			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Theme
3	crow	past · progressive	the cocks				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	get	past · progressive	bird	light			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer light=Stimulus
5	lie down	past	I		then	for a little; down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	sleep	past	I				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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