The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 18
So they laid themselves down, and spread the sheet over them, and held their breath.
Who acts: tears · What happens: lay down, spread, hold · To what, where: tears, sheet, breath
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tears), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 laid | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 laid | nsubj |
| 3 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 laid | obj |
| 5 | down | down | ADP | _ | 3 laid | compound:prt |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 spread | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 spread | cc |
| 8 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 laid | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sheet | det |
| 10 | sheet | sheet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 spread | obj |
| 11 | over | over | ADP | _ | 12 them | case |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 spread | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 held | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 held | cc |
| 15 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 laid | conj |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 breath | nmod:poss |
| 17 | breath | breath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 held | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 laid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay down | past | tears = tear | tears = tear | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Result | ||||
| 2 | spread | past | tears = tear not said here | the sheet | over tears = tear | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent sheet=Theme over they=Destination | |||
| 3 | hold | past | tears = tear not said here | tears's breath | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breath=Theme |
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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