The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 30, sentence 97
And they bowed their heads and lay down in the place where they stood.
Who acts: Covan · What happens: bow, lay down, stand · To what, where: heads, place
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Covan), 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 bowed | cc |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 bowed | nsubj |
| 3 | bowed | bow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 heads | nmod:poss |
| 5 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 bowed | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 lay | cc |
| 7 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 bowed | conj |
| 8 | down | down | ADV | _ | 7 lay | advmod |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 place | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 place | det |
| 11 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lay | obl |
| 12 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 14 stood | advmod |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 stood | nsubj |
| 14 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 place | acl:relcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 bowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bow | past | Covan | Covan's heads | vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Topic | ||||
| 2 | lay down | infinitive | Covan not said here | the place | down property | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in place=Destination | |||
| 3 | stand | past | Covan | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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