The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 72
The broidered kerchief and the jewels lay upon the ground.
Who acts: broidered kerchief · What happens: broider, lay · To what, where: ground
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 (broidered kerchief), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 kerchief | det |
| 2 | broidered | broider | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 kerchief | amod |
| 3 | kerchief | kerchief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lay | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 jewels | cc |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 jewels | det |
| 6 | jewels | jewel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 kerchief | conj |
| 7 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 10 ground | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 ground | det |
| 10 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lay | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | broider | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | lay | present | the broidered kerchief and the jewels | the ground | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent upon ground=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/3/72/