The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 27, sentence 78

'Because the secret of my power lies in my little cap that is made of rose leaves; but I had laid it aside for the moment, when that horrible crow pounced upon me.

Who acts: I, horrible crow, my · What happens: make, lay, pounce, lie · To what, where: little cap, cap

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, horrible crow, my), 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	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 secret	punct
2	Because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	4 secret	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 secret	det
4	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 lies	case
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 lies	nmod:poss
7	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lies	compound
8	lies	lie	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 secret	nmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	12 cap	case
10	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 cap	nmod:poss
11	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 cap	amod
12	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lies	nmod
13	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 made	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 made	aux:pass
15	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 cap	acl:relcl
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 leaves	case
17	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 leaves	compound
18	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 made	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 laid	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 laid	cc
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 laid	nsubj
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 laid	aux
23	laid	lay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 secret	conj
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 laid	obj
25	aside	aside	ADV	_	23 laid	advmod
26	for	for	ADP	_	28 moment	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 moment	det
28	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 laid	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 pounced	punct
30	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	34 pounced	advmod
31	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	33 crow	det
32	horrible	horrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 crow	amod
33	crow	crow	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 pounced	nsubj
34	pounced	pounce	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 secret	conj
35	upon	upon	ADP	_	36 me	case
36	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 pounced	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 secret	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present · passive		my little cap			of rose leaves	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
2	lay	past · perfect	I	cap		moment	aside property	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Result
3	pounce	participle	that horrible crow				upon me	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon i=Trajectory
4	lie		my		my little cap			nom lie «communication intransitive»: poss=agent in=place

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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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