The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 18
“Now lie flat on the ground with your head on this stone, while I smash them.”
Who acts: wolverine · What happens: lie, smash · To what, where: ground, berries
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wolverine), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 lie | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 lie | advmod |
| 3 | lie | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | flat | flat | ADV | _ | 3 lie | advmod |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 ground | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 ground | det |
| 7 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lie | obl |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 head | case |
| 9 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 head | nmod:poss |
| 10 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lie | obl |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 stone | case |
| 12 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 stone | det |
| 13 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lie | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 smash | punct |
| 15 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 17 smash | mark |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 smash | nsubj |
| 17 | smash | smash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 lie | conj |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 smash | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lie | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 lie | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie in a quote | present | the ground | now | with your head; on this stone; flat property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on ground=Location | |||
| 2 | smash in a quote | present | the wolverine = wolverine | berries = berry | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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