The Green Fairy Book, The Story of the Three Bears, sentence 25

So she covered herself up comfortably, and lay there till she fell fast asleep.

Who acts: woman · What happens: cover up, lay, fall · To what, where: woman

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of the Three Bears. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 covered	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 covered	nsubj
3	covered	cover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 covered	obj
5	up	up	ADP	_	3 covered	compound:prt
6	comfortably	comfortably	ADV	_	3 covered	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 lay	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 lay	cc
9	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 covered	conj
10	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 lay	advmod
11	till	till	SCONJ	_	13 fell	mark
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 fell	nsubj
13	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 lay	advcl
14	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 fell	advmod
15	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 fell	xcomp
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 covered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	cover up	past	woman	woman		comfortably property	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent herself=Destination
2	lay	infinitive	woman not said here		there		vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	fall	past	woman			asleep, fast property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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