The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 4, sentence 19

But by an unlucky chance the King heard nothing of all this, for he took a sleeping draught every night before he lay down, and did not wake up until the sun was high.

Who acts: King, sun · What happens: hear, take, sleep, lie down, not wake up, be · To what, where: nothing, sleeping draught

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	8 heard	cc
2	by	by	ADP	_	5 chance	case
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 chance	det
4	unlucky	unlucky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 chance	amod
5	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 heard	obl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 King	det
7	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 heard	nsubj
8	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	8 heard	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 this	case
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 this	det:predet
12	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 nothing	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 took	punct
14	for	for	SCONJ	_	16 took	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 took	nsubj
16	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 heard	conj
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 draught	det
18	sleeping	sleep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 draught	amod
19	draught	draught	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 took	obj
20	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	21 night	det
21	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 took	obl:unmarked
22	before	before	SCONJ	_	24 lay	mark
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 lay	nsubj
24	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 took	advcl
25	down	down	ADV	_	24 lay	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 wake	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 wake	cc
28	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 wake	aux
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 wake	advmod
30	wake	wake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 heard	conj
31	up	up	ADP	_	30 wake	compound:prt
32	until	until	SCONJ	_	36 high	mark
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 sun	det
34	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 high	nsubj
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 high	cop
36	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 wake	advcl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past	the King	nothing		by a unlucky chance	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus
2	take	past	King	a sleeping draught	night		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent draught=Theme
3	sleep	gerund					vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	lie down	past	King			down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	not wake up	past · do-support	the King not said here				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
6	is	past	the sun			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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