The Violet Fairy Book, The Finest Liar in the World, sentence 52

Then it occurred to me that I had stuck a needle in my clothes, so I took the needle and split it in pieces, and lit it, then laid myself down by the fire and went to sleep.

Who acts: box, I · What happens: occur, stick, take, split, light, lay down · To what, where: me, needle, clothes, box, pieces, 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 (box, I), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 occurred	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 occurred	nsubj
3	occurred	occur	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 me	case
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 occurred	obl
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 stuck	mark
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 stuck	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 stuck	aux
9	stuck	stick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 occurred	advcl
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 needle	det
11	needle	needle	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stuck	obj
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 clothes	case
13	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 clothes	nmod:poss
14	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	9 stuck	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 took	punct
16	so	so	ADV	_	18 took	advmod
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 took	nsubj
18	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 occurred	parataxis
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 needle	det
20	needle	needle	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 took	obj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 split	cc
22	split	split	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 took	conj
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 split	obj
24	in	in	ADP	_	25 pieces	case
25	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 split	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 lit	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 lit	cc
28	lit	light	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 occurred	conj
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 lit	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 laid	punct
31	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	32 laid	advmod
32	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 occurred	conj
33	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	32 laid	obj
34	down	down	ADP	_	32 laid	compound:prt
35	by	by	ADP	_	37 fire	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 fire	det
37	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 laid	obl
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 went	cc
39	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 occurred	conj
40	to	to	ADP	_	41 sleep	case
41	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 went	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 occurred	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	occur	past	box		me		then		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	stick	past · perfect	I	a needle		my clothes			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent needle=Theme in clothes=Destination
3	take	past	I	the needle					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent needle=Theme
4	split	past	I not said here	box		pieces			vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
5	light	past	box not said here	box					vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product
6	lay down	past	box not said here	myself			then	by the fire	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent myself=Theme by fire=Destination
7	go	past	box not said here			sleep			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to sleep=Initial_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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