The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Snake, sentence 46

They laid themselves down on the green carpet and soon fell fast asleep, and did not waken again till the sun was high in the heavens.

Who acts: inhabitants, sun · What happens: lay down, fall, not waken, be · To what, where: inhabitants, green carpet, heavens

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Snake. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (inhabitants, sun), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 laid	nsubj
2	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 laid	obj
4	down	down	ADP	_	2 laid	compound:prt
5	on	on	ADP	_	8 carpet	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 carpet	det
7	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 carpet	amod
8	carpet	carpet	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 laid	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 fell	cc
10	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 fell	advmod
11	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 laid	conj
12	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 fell	advmod
13	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 fell	xcomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 waken	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 waken	cc
16	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 waken	aux
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 waken	advmod
18	waken	waken	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 laid	parataxis
19	again	again	ADV	_	18 waken	advmod
20	till	till	SCONJ	_	24 high	mark
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 sun	det
22	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 high	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 high	cop
24	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 waken	advcl
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 heavens	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 heavens	det
27	heavens	heaven	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 high	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 laid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lay down	past	inhabitants = inhabitant	inhabitants = inhabitant	the green carpet			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme on carpet=Destination
2	fall	past	inhabitants = inhabitant not said here				asleep, fast, soon property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	not waken	past · do-support				again		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	is	past	the sun		the heavens		high 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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