The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 3, sentence 129
Lie down and have a sleep in the meantime.’
Who acts: you · What happens: lie down, have · To what, where: sleep, meantime
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | Lie | lie | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | down | down | ADV | _ | 1 Lie | advmod |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 have | cc |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Lie | conj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 sleep | det |
| 6 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 have | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 meantime | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 meantime | det |
| 9 | meantime | meantime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 have | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Lie | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Lie | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie down | imperative | you not said here | down property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | have | present | you not said here | a sleep | the meantime | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sleep=Patient |
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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