The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Hassebu, sentence 5
And he stayed at home, eating and sleeping.
Who acts: child · What happens: stay, eat, sleep · To what, where: home
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 (child), 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 stayed | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 stayed | nsubj |
| 3 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 home | case |
| 5 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stayed | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 eating | punct |
| 7 | eating | eat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 stayed | advcl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 sleeping | cc |
| 9 | sleeping | sleep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 eating | conj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stayed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | past | child | home | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at home=Location | ||||
| 2 | eat | gerund | child not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | sleep | gerund | child not said here | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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