The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 111

So it was done, though the old woman’s heart beat as she laid down the dish with the head upon it.

Who acts: palace, heart, woman · What happens: be, beat, lay down · To what, where: dish

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (palace, heart, woman), 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 done	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 done	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 done	cop
4	done	done	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 beat	punct
6	though	though	SCONJ	_	12 beat	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 woman	det
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 woman	amod
9	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 heart	nmod:poss
10	’s	's	PART	_	9 woman	case
11	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 beat	nsubj
12	beat	beat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 done	parataxis
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	15 laid	mark
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 laid	nsubj
15	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 beat	ccomp
16	down	down	ADP	_	15 laid	compound:prt
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 dish	det
18	dish	dish	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 laid	obj
19	with	with	ADP	_	21 head	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 head	det
21	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 dish	nmod
22	upon	upon	ADP	_	23 it	case
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 head	nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 done	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	palace		done property	tree rules
2	beat	present	the old woman's heart			tree rules
3	lay down	past	woman	the dish	with the head upon palace	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dish=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 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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