The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 99
They were the best heads too, and very soon the other twelve lay beside them.
Who acts: heads, other twelve · What happens: be, lay · To what, where: best heads
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heads, other twelve), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 heads | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 heads | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 heads | det |
| 4 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 heads | amod |
| 5 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | too | too | ADV | _ | 5 heads | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 lay | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 lay | cc |
| 9 | very | very | ADV | _ | 10 soon | advmod |
| 10 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 twelve | advmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 twelve | det |
| 12 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 twelve | amod |
| 13 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 lay | nsubj |
| 14 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 heads | parataxis |
| 15 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 16 them | case |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 lay | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 heads | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | heads = head | the best heads | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | lay | present | the other twelve | beside heads = head | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent beside they=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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