The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 54
The pigs were killed, and laid side by side in a row.
What happens: kill, lay · To what, where: pigs
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 pigs | det |
| 2 | pigs | pig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 killed | aux:pass |
| 4 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 side | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 side | cc |
| 7 | laid | lay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 side | amod |
| 8 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 killed | obl |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 side | case |
| 10 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 side | nmod |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 row | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 row | det |
| 13 | row | row | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 side | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 killed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill | past · passive | the pigs | laid side by side in a row obl | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | lay | participle | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=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 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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