The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4, sentence 81
By and by two babies, exactly alike, lay in a cradle, and in the garden were two tall plants, with two brilliant shields on the top.
What happens: lay, be · To what, where: cradle, two tall plants, garden
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4. 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 5 babies | case |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 by | cc |
| 3 | by | by | ADP | _ | 1 By | conj |
| 4 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 babies | nummod |
| 5 | babies | baby | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 lay | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 alike | punct |
| 7 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 8 alike | advmod |
| 8 | alike | alike | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 babies | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 babies | punct |
| 10 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 cradle | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 cradle | det |
| 13 | cradle | cradle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lay | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 plants | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 plants | cc |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 garden | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 garden | det |
| 18 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 plants | obl |
| 19 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 plants | cop |
| 20 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 plants | nummod |
| 21 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 plants | amod |
| 22 | plants | plant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 lay | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 shields | punct |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 shields | case |
| 25 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 shields | nummod |
| 26 | brilliant | brilliant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 shields | amod |
| 27 | shields | shield | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 lay | obl |
| 28 | on | on | ADP | _ | 30 top | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 top | det |
| 30 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 shields | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay | present | a cradle | by two babies; with two brilliant shields on the top | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by baby=Destination | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | two tall plants | the garden | tree rules |
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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