The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 24
And a cloud he was, and lay between the sun and the earth.
Who acts: cloud · What happens: lay · To what, where: sun
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cloud), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 lay | cc |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 cloud | det |
| 3 | cloud | cloud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lay | nsubj |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 was | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 cloud | acl:relcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 lay | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 lay | cc |
| 8 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | between | between | ADP | _ | 11 sun | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sun | det |
| 11 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lay | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 earth | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 earth | det |
| 14 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sun | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay | infinitive | a cloud | the sun and the earth | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent between sun=Destination |
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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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