The Violet Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples, sentence 8

But no sooner had he lain himself down than his eyes grew heavy, and when the sunbeams roused him from his slumbers there was not an apple left on the tree.

Who acts: son, eyes, sunbeams · What happens: have, lain down, grow, rouse, leave, slumber · To what, where: son, slumbers, apple, tree

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 (son, eyes, sunbeams), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 had	cc
2	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	3 sooner	det
3	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 had	advmod
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 lain	nsubj
6	lain	lain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 had	xcomp
7	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 lain	obj
8	down	down	ADP	_	6 lain	compound:prt
9	than	than	SCONJ	_	12 grew	mark
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 eyes	nmod:poss
11	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 grew	nsubj
12	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 lain	advcl
13	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 grew	xcomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 roused	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 roused	cc
16	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	19 roused	advmod
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 sunbeams	det
18	sunbeams	sunbeam	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 roused	nsubj
19	roused	rouse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 had	conj
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 roused	obj
21	from	from	ADP	_	23 slumbers	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 slumbers	nmod:poss
23	slumbers	slumber	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 roused	obl
24	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	25 was	expl
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 slumbers	acl:relcl
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 apple	advmod
27	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 apple	det
28	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 was	nsubj
29	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 apple	acl
30	on	on	ADP	_	32 tree	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 tree	det
32	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 left	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past				soon property	tree rules
2	lain down	infinitive	son	son			tree rules
3	grow	past	son's eyes			heavy property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	rouse	past	the sunbeams	son	son's slumbers		vn stimulate-59.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
5	leave	participle		a apple not said here	the tree		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent on tree=Location
6	slumber		son				nom slumber «state intransitive»: poss=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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