The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 28, sentence 57

Here she could lie at her ease, with her cap on her head, for it was quite large and roomy, and could easily have held two eggs when the frog was not in it.

Who acts: frog, head · What happens: lie, be, hold, not be · To what, where: ease, two eggs, head

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (frog, head), 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	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 lie	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lie	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 lie	aux
4	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 ease	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 ease	nmod:poss
7	ease	ease	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lie	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 cap	punct
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 cap	case
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 cap	nmod:poss
11	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lie	obl
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 head	case
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 head	nmod:poss
14	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cap	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 large	punct
16	for	for	SCONJ	_	20 large	mark
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 large	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 large	cop
19	quite	quite	ADV	_	20 large	advmod
20	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 lie	parataxis
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 roomy	cc
22	roomy	roomy	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 large	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 held	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 held	cc
25	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 held	aux
26	easily	easily	ADV	_	28 held	advmod
27	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 held	aux
28	held	hold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 large	advcl
29	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 eggs	nummod
30	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 held	obj
31	when	when	SCONJ	_	37 it	mark
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 frog	det
33	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 it	nsubj
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 it	cop
35	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	37 it	advmod
36	in	in	ADP	_	37 it	case
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 held	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 lie	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lie	could	frog		frog's ease; here	with frog's cap on frog's head	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at ease=Location
2	is	past	head			large property	tree rules
3	hold	could · perfect	head not said here	two eggs		easily property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Theme
4	not is	past	the frog		head		tree rules

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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