The Violet Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples, sentence 20
Before long he arrived and laid down on his bed, and was soon fast asleep.
Who acts: prince · What happens: arrive, lay down, be · To what, where: bed
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince), 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 | Before | before | ADP | _ | 2 long | case |
| 2 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 arrived | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 arrived | nsubj |
| 4 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 laid | cc |
| 6 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 arrived | conj |
| 7 | down | down | ADP | _ | 6 laid | compound:prt |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 bed | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 bed | nmod:poss |
| 10 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 laid | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 asleep | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 asleep | cc |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 asleep | cop |
| 14 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 asleep | advmod |
| 15 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 asleep | advmod |
| 16 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 arrived | advcl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 arrived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | past | prince | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | lay down | past | prince not said here | prince's bed | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on bed=Destination | ||||
| 3 | is | past | prince not said here | asleep, fast, soon property | tree rules |
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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