The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 71

Pivi lay still under his coverings, then a tiny noise was heard, and the Black Ant began to march over Pivi, who lay quite still.

Who acts: Pivi, Black Ant · What happens: lie, hear, begin, march, lay · To what, where: coverings, tiny noise, Pivi

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Pivi, Black Ant), 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	Pivi	Pivi	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 lay	nsubj
2	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	still	still	ADV	_	2 lay	advmod
4	under	under	ADP	_	6 coverings	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 coverings	nmod:poss
6	coverings	covering	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 lay	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 heard	punct
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 heard	advmod
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 noise	det
10	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 noise	amod
11	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 heard	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 heard	aux:pass
13	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 lay	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 began	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 began	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Ant	det
17	Black	Black	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Ant	compound
18	Ant	Ant	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 began	nsubj
19	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 lay	conj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 march	mark
21	march	march	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 began	xcomp
22	over	over	ADP	_	23 Pivi	case
23	Pivi	Pivi	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 march	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 lay	punct
25	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 lay	nsubj
26	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 Pivi	acl:relcl
27	quite	quite	ADV	_	28 still	advmod
28	still	still	ADV	_	26 lay	advmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	lie	past	Pivi		Next's coverings	still	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under covering=Location
2	hear	past · passive		a tiny noise		then	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus
3	begin	past	the Black Ant				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	march	to-infinitive	the Black Ant not said here		Pivi		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over pivi=Trajectory
5	lay	present	Pivi			still	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: 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 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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