The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 67
At these words the deer uttered sounds, and laid its head on her feet.
Who acts: deer · What happens: utter, lay · To what, where: sounds, words, head, feet
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (deer), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 words | case |
| 2 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 words | det |
| 3 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 uttered | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 deer | det |
| 5 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 uttered | nsubj |
| 6 | uttered | utter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | sounds | sound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 uttered | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 laid | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 laid | cc |
| 10 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 uttered | conj |
| 11 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 head | nmod:poss |
| 12 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 laid | obj |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 feet | case |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 feet | nmod:poss |
| 15 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 laid | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 uttered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | utter speech: other | past | the deer | sounds | this words | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent sound=Topic | |||
| 2 | lay | past | the deer not said here | art's head | work's feet | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme on foot=Destination |
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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