The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 9, sentence 64

It is all nonsense about it not laying eggs.

Who acts: purr · What happens: be, not lay · To what, where: eggs

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (purr), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 nonsense	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 nonsense	cop
3	all	all	ADV	_	4 nonsense	advmod
4	nonsense	nonsense	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	about	about	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 nonsense	obl
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 laying	advmod
8	laying	lay	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 nonsense	advcl
9	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 laying	obj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 nonsense	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	purr					about bed; all, nonsense property	tree rules
2	not lay	gerund	purr not said here	eggs					vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result

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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