--- title: Here he lay down, but he was too tired and too frightened to fall as… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Here he lay down, but he was too tired and too frightened to fall asleep, and with the earliest peep of the sun the reeds began to rustle, and he saw that he had blundered into a colony of wild ducks. Who acts: rest, reeds, sun. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 9, --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/9/27/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Orange Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/) / [Opening, part 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/9/) / 27 # The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 9, sentence 27 Here he lay down, but he was too tired and too frightened to fall asleep, and with the earliest peep of the sun the reeds began to rustle, and he saw that he had blundered into a colony of wild ducks. **Who acts:** rest, reeds, sun · **What happens:** lie down, be, fall, begin, rustle, see · **To what, where:** colony · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rest, reeds, 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg3027:9:27 # text = Here he lay down, but he was too tired and too frightened to fall asleep, and with the earliest peep of the sun the reeds began to rustle, and he saw that he had blundered into a colony of wild ducks. 1 Here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 lay lie VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 down down ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 6 but but CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 7 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 8 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 9 too too ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 tired tired ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 advcl _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 12 too too ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 frightened frightened ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 conj _ _ 14 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 15 fall fall VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 xcomp _ _ 16 asleep asleep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 19 with with ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 earliest early ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 22 amod _ _ 22 peep peep NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 sun sun NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 reeds reed NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj _ _ 28 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 29 to to PART TO _ 30 mark _ _ 30 rustle rustle VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 33 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 34 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 35 that that SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ _ 36 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 37 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ _ 38 blundered blunder VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 34 ccomp _ _ 39 into into ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 colony colony NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ _ 42 of of ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 44 ducks duck NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lie down** | past | rest | | | here | | down *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** | past | rest | | | | | tired *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **be** | | rest *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **fall** | to-infinitive | rest *not said here* | | | | | asleep *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **begin** | past | the reeds | | | | | with the earliest peep of the sun | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 6 | **rustle** | to-infinitive | the reeds *not said here* | | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **see** | past | rest | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 8 | **blunder** | past · perfect | rest | | | a colony of wild ducks | | | tree rules | | 9 | **peep** | | the sun | | | | | | nom peep «event intransitive»: of=agent | 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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/9/26/) - next →: [sentence 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/9/28/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/9/)