The Violet Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples, sentence 9
Next came the turn of the youngest son, who made himself a comfortable bed under the apple tree, and prepared himself to sleep.
Who acts: turn, youngest son · What happens: come, make, prepare, sleep · To what, where: son, 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 (turn, youngest son), 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 | Next | next | ADV | _ | 2 came | advmod |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 turn | det |
| 4 | turn | turn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 came | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 son | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 son | det |
| 7 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 son | amod |
| 8 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 turn | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 made | punct |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 made | nsubj |
| 11 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 son | acl:relcl |
| 12 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 made | obj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 bed | det |
| 14 | comfortable | comfortable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 bed | amod |
| 15 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 made | obj |
| 16 | under | under | ADP | _ | 19 tree | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 tree | det |
| 18 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 tree | compound |
| 19 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 made | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 prepared | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 prepared | cc |
| 22 | prepared | prepare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | parataxis |
| 23 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 22 prepared | obj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 sleep | mark |
| 25 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 prepared | xcomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the turn of the youngest son | next property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | make | past | the youngest son | son | the apple tree | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset himself=Beneficiary bed=Product | |||
| 3 | prepare | past | son | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | sleep not said to happen | to-infinitive | 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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