The Violet Fairy Book, The Nunda, Eater of People, sentence 93

When he was alone, he laid himself down and slept fast till one o’clock, when he arose, and sat opposite the date tree.

Who acts: boy · What happens: be, lay down, sleep, arise, sit · To what, where: boy, date tree

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 (boy), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 alone	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 alone	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 alone	cop
4	alone	alone	ADV	_	7 laid	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 alone	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 laid	nsubj
7	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	7 laid	obj
9	down	down	ADP	_	7 laid	compound:prt
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 slept	cc
11	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 laid	conj
12	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 slept	advmod
13	till	till	ADP	_	15 o’clock	case
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 o’clock	nummod
15	o’clock	o'clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 slept	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 arose	punct
17	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	19 arose	advmod
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 arose	nsubj
19	arose	arise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 o’clock	acl:relcl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 sat	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 sat	cc
22	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 laid	conj
23	opposite	opposite	ADP	_	26 tree	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 tree	det
25	date	date	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 tree	compound
26	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 sat	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 laid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	boy				alone property	tree rules
2	lay down	past	boy	boy				vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Result
3	sleep	past	boy not said here			till one o’clock	fast property	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	arise	past	boy					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	sit	past	boy not said here		the date tree			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent opposite tree=Location

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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