The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Halfman, sentence 120

So Halfman came down from the tower, and went on, till he got to a desert place, and as he was very tired, he lay down to sleep.

Who acts: Halfman · What happens: come down, go on, get, be, lie down, sleep · To what, where: tower

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Halfman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Halfman), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 came	advmod
2	Halfman	Halfman	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	down	down	ADV	_	3 came	advmod
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 tower	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 tower	det
7	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 went	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 went	cc
10	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	parataxis
11	on	on	ADV	_	10 went	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 got	punct
13	till	till	SCONJ	_	15 got	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 got	nsubj
15	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 went	conj
16	to	to	ADP	_	19 place	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 place	det
18	desert	desert	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 place	compound
19	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 got	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 lay	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 lay	cc
22	as	as	SCONJ	_	26 tired	mark
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 tired	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 tired	cop
25	very	very	ADV	_	26 tired	advmod
26	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 lay	advcl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 tired	punct
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 lay	nsubj
29	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	parataxis
30	down	down	ADV	_	29 lay	advmod
31	to	to	PART	_	32 sleep	mark
32	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 lay	advcl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	come down	past	Halfman	the tower	down property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from tower=Initial_Location
2	go on	past				vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	get	past	Halfman		to a desert place result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to place=Result
4	is	past	Halfman		tired property	tree rules
5	lie down	past	Halfman		down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	sleep	to-infinitive	Halfman 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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