The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 2

Around her upon the grass lay her young companions, as if they had thrown themselves down to rest after some merry game.

What happens: lie, throw down, rest · To what, where: young companions, companions

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	Around	around	ADP	_	2 her	case
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 lay	obl
3	upon	upon	ADP	_	5 grass	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 grass	det
5	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lay	obl
6	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 companions	nmod:poss
8	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 companions	amod
9	companions	companion	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 lay	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 thrown	punct
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	15 thrown	mark
12	if	if	SCONJ	_	15 thrown	mark
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 thrown	nsubj:pass
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 thrown	aux
15	thrown	throw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 lay	conj
16	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	15 thrown	obj
17	down	down	ADP	_	15 thrown	compound:prt
18	to	to	PART	_	19 rest	mark
19	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 thrown	advcl
20	after	after	ADP	_	23 game	case
21	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	23 game	det
22	merry	merry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 game	amod
23	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 rest	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	lie	past	her young companions		around her = she; upon the grass	vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location companion=Theme
2	throw down a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect · passive	companions = companion			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Destination themselves=Theme
3	rest	to-infinitive		after some merry game		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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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