The Violet Fairy Book, The Finest Liar in the World, sentence 35

I then got down from my bee, and let him loose, that he might get his supper, gave the cock some hay, and went to sleep myself.

Who acts: I, use · What happens: get down, let, lose, get, give, go · To what, where: use, supper, hay, cock, myself

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Finest Liar in the World. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, use), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 got	nsubj
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 got	advmod
3	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	down	down	ADV	_	3 got	advmod
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 bee	case
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 bee	nmod:poss
7	bee	bee	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 got	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 let	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 let	cc
10	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 got	parataxis
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 let	obj
12	loose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 let	xcomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 get	punct
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 get	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 get	nsubj
16	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 get	aux
17	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 let	advcl
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 supper	nmod:poss
19	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 get	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 gave	punct
21	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 got	conj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 cock	det
23	cock	cock	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 gave	obj
24	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	25 hay	det
25	hay	hay	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 gave	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 went	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 went	cc
28	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 got	conj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 sleep	mark
30	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 went	xcomp
31	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	30 sleep	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 got	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	get down	past	I			then	from my bee; down property	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
2	let	infinitive		use				tree rules
3	lose	infinitive	use not said here					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	get	might	use	use's supper				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer supper=Stimulus
5	give	past	I not said here	some hay	the cock			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent cock=Recipient hay=Theme
6	go	past	I not said here					vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	sleep	to-infinitive	I not said here	myself				vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myself=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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