The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 9
And she laid the table for her sister and set food before her.
Who acts: Sister · What happens: lay, set · To what, where: table, food
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sister), 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 | _ | 3 laid | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 laid | nsubj |
| 3 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 table | det |
| 5 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 laid | obj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 sister | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 sister | nmod:poss |
| 8 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 laid | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 set | cc |
| 10 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 laid | conj |
| 11 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 set | obj |
| 12 | before | before | ADP | _ | 13 her | case |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 set | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 laid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay | past | Sister | the table | for Sister's sister | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent table=Result for sister=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | set | past | Sister not said here | food | before Sister | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent food=Theme before she=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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