The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 31, sentence 24
And in a short while he laid the roe unhurt at Covan's feet.
Who acts: Dog · What happens: lay · To what, where: roe, short
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, 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 (Dog), 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 | _ | 7 laid | cc |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 short | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 short | det |
| 4 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 laid | obl |
| 5 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 7 laid | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 laid | nsubj |
| 7 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 roe | det |
| 9 | roe | roe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 laid | obj |
| 10 | unhurt | unhurt | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 laid | xcomp |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 feet | case |
| 12 | Covan | Covan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 feet | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 Covan | case |
| 14 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 unhurt | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 laid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay | past | Dog | the roe | a short | unhurt property | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent roe=Theme in short=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 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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