The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Hassebu, sentence 44
And he went in and lay down on it, and fell fast asleep, for he had wandered far.
Who acts: Inside · What happens: go in, lay down, fall, wander · To what, where: sofa
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Hassebu. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Inside), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 went | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 lay | cc |
| 6 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 went | conj |
| 7 | down | down | ADV | _ | 6 lay | advmod |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 it | case |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 lay | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 fell | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 fell | cc |
| 12 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 13 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 asleep | advmod |
| 14 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 fell | xcomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 wandered | punct |
| 16 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 19 wandered | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 wandered | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 wandered | aux |
| 19 | wandered | wander | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 fell | conj |
| 20 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 wandered | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in | past | Inside | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | lay down | infinitive | Inside not said here | sofa | down property | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on it=Destination | |||
| 3 | fall | past | Inside not said here | asleep property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | wander | past · perfect | Inside | far property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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