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title: After a time Sigurd became so heavy with sleep that he could no long… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: After a time Sigurd became so heavy with sleep that he could no longer keep awake, so he went below and lay down, leaving the Queen alone on the deck, playing with her son. Who acts: Sigurd. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), with its dependency tr
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 15

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After a time Sigurd became so heavy with sleep that he could no longer keep awake, so he went below and lay down, leaving the Queen alone on the deck, playing with her son.

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**Who acts:** Sigurd · **What happens:** become, keep, go, lay down, leave, play · **To what, where:** Queen, deck

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sigurd), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg640:47:15
# text = After a time Sigurd became so heavy with sleep that he could no longer keep awake, so he went below and lay down, leaving the Queen alone on the deck, playing with her son.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	Sigurd	Sigurd	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
12	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
13	no	no	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	15	advmod	_	_
15	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
16	awake	awake	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
21	below	below	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	lay	lay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
24	down	down	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	leaving	leave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	advcl	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
30	on	on	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	deck	deck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
34	playing	play	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	advcl	_	_
35	with	with	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past | Sigurd |  |  |  | time | heavy *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **keep** | could | Sigurd |  |  |  |  | awake, long *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **go** | past | Sigurd |  |  |  |  | below *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **lay down** | infinitive | Sigurd *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **leave** | gerund | Sigurd *not said here* | the Queen |  | the deck |  | alone *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent queen=Theme on deck=Location |
| 6 | **play** | gerund | Sigurd *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with Queen's son | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with son=Co-Agent |

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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.

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**Text:** «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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