The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 237

He laid his head on his left arm, round which the scarf was tied, and was soon fast asleep.

Who acts: Kinglet · What happens: lay, round, tie, be · To what, where: head, left arm

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kinglet), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 laid	nsubj
2	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 head	nmod:poss
4	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 laid	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	8 arm	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 arm	nmod:poss
7	left	left	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 arm	amod
8	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 laid	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 round	punct
10	round	round	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 laid	parataxis
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 tied	nsubj:pass
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 scarf	det
13	scarf	scarf	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 tied	nsubj:pass
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 tied	aux:pass
15	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 round	ccomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 asleep	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 asleep	cc
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 asleep	cop
19	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	21 asleep	advmod
20	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	21 asleep	advmod
21	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 laid	parataxis
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 laid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lay	past	Kinglet	Kinglet's head	Kinglet's left arm		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme on arm=Destination
2	round	infinitive					tree rules
3	tie	past · passive					vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
4	is	past				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 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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