The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 3, sentence 67

The hermit had a great deal to say, and the day was very hot, so the nun, tired of sitting by herself, lay down right across the threshold, and fell sound asleep.

Who acts: hermit, day · What happens: have, say, be, sit, lay down, fall · To what, where: great deal, threshold · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hermit, day), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 hermit	det
2	hermit	hermit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 deal	det
5	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 deal	amod
6	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 say	mark
8	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 deal	acl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 hot	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 hot	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 day	det
12	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 hot	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 hot	cop
14	very	very	ADV	_	15 hot	advmod
15	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 had	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 nun	punct
17	so	so	ADV	_	19 nun	advmod
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 nun	det
19	nun	nun	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 hot	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 tired	punct
21	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 nun	amod
22	of	of	SCONJ	_	23 sitting	mark
23	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 tired	advcl
24	by	by	ADP	_	25 herself	case
25	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	23 sitting	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 lay	punct
27	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 had	conj
28	down	down	ADV	_	27 lay	advmod
29	right	right	ADV	_	32 threshold	advmod
30	across	across	ADP	_	32 threshold	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 threshold	det
32	threshold	threshold	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 lay	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 fell	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 fell	cc
35	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	conj
36	sound	sound	ADV	_	37 asleep	advmod
37	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 fell	xcomp
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	the hermit	a great deal			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deal=Patient
2	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	the hermit not said here	a great deal not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	the day			the nun obl; hot property	tree rules
4	sit	gerund	the day not said here			by joy	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by herself=Location
5	lay down	infinitive	the hermit not said here		the threshold	down property	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	fall	past	the hermit not said here			asleep property	vn occur-48.3 «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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