The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Halfman, sentence 25

After that she lay down and was soon snoring loudly.

Who acts: wife · What happens: lie down, snore

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 (wife), 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	After	after	ADP	_	2 that	case
2	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 lay	obl
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lay	nsubj
4	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	down	down	ADV	_	4 lay	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 snoring	cc
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 snoring	aux
8	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 snoring	advmod
9	snoring	snore	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 lay	conj
10	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	9 snoring	advmod
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie down	past	wife				after that	down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	snore	past · progressive	wife not said here					loudly, soon property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «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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