The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 5, sentence 89

In a glen lay three heroes stretched on their backs, done to death by three spears that still stuck in their breasts.

What happens: lie, stretch, do · To what, where: three heroes, glen, backs

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 glen	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 glen	det
3	glen	glen	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lay	obl
4	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 heroes	nummod
6	heroes	hero	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 lay	obj
7	stretched	stretch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 heroes	acl
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 backs	case
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 backs	nmod:poss
10	backs	back	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 stretched	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 done	punct
12	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 backs	acl
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 death	case
14	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 done	obl
15	by	by	ADP	_	17 spears	case
16	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 spears	nummod
17	spears	spear	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 done	obl
18	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 stuck	nsubj
19	still	still	ADV	_	20 stuck	advmod
20	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 spears	acl:relcl
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 breasts	case
22	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 breasts	nmod:poss
23	breasts	breast	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 stuck	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lie	past	three heroes	a glen		vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hero=Theme
2	stretch	participle	three heroes not said here	heroes's backs		vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	do	participle	heroes's backs not said here		to death; by three spears	vn act-114-1 «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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