The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Ring, sentence 9

Night overtook him at the foot of a great rock, and he fell asleep on a bank of moss, lulled by the music of a little brook.

Who acts: Night, youth · What happens: overtake, fall, lull · To what, where: youth, foot, bank

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Night, youth), 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	Night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 overtook	nsubj
2	overtook	overtake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 overtook	obj
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 foot	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 foot	det
6	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 overtook	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 rock	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 rock	det
9	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 rock	amod
10	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 foot	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 fell	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 fell	cc
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 fell	nsubj
14	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 overtook	parataxis
15	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 fell	xcomp
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 bank	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 bank	det
18	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 fell	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 moss	case
20	moss	moss	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 bank	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 lulled	punct
22	lulled	lull	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 fell	conj
23	by	by	ADP	_	25 music	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 music	det
25	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 lulled	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	29 brook	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 brook	det
28	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 brook	amod
29	brook	brook	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 music	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 overtook	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	overtake	past	Night	youth	the foot of a great rock		tree rules
2	fall	past	youth		a bank of moss	asleep property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on bank=Location
3	lull	participle	youth not said here			by the music of a little brook	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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