The Violet Fairy Book, The Nunda, Eater of People, sentence 49

‘I will make myself comfortable against this tree,’ and he leaned against the trunk, and sleep came on him, and the bird flew down and ate all the dates.

Who acts: I, father, sleep, bird · What happens: make, learn, come, fly down, eat · To what, where: myself, dates

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 (I, father, sleep, 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	4 make	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 make	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 make	aux
4	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 make	obj
6	comfortable	comfortable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 make	xcomp
7	against	against	ADP	_	9 tree	case
8	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 tree	det
9	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 comfortable	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 make	punct
11	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 make	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 leaned	cc
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 leaned	nsubj
14	leaned	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 make	conj
15	against	against	ADP	_	17 trunk	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 trunk	det
17	trunk	trunk	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 leaned	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 came	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 came	cc
20	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 came	nsubj
21	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 leaned	conj
22	on	on	ADP	_	23 him	case
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 came	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 flew	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 flew	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 bird	det
27	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 flew	nsubj
28	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 came	parataxis
29	down	down	ADP	_	28 flew	compound:prt
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 ate	cc
31	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 flew	conj
32	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	34 dates	det:predet
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 dates	det
34	dates	date	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 ate	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 make	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make	future	I	myself	comfortable property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myself=Product
2	learn	past	father		against the trunk	vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	come	past	sleep		on father	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on he=Location
4	fly down	past	the bird			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	eat	past	the bird not said here	all dates		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent date=Patient

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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