The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 103

“Lie down on those buffalo skins by the door of the hut,” answered she; and the boy lay down, and the squirrels and little bears and the birds came and talked to him.

Who acts: witch, boy, squirrels · What happens: lie down, answer, come, talk · To what, where: buffalo skins, witch, boy · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (witch, boy, squirrels), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	2 Lie	punct
2	Lie	lie	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	down	down	ADP	_	2 Lie	compound:prt
4	on	on	ADP	_	7 skins	case
5	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	7 skins	det
6	buffalo	buffalo	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 skins	compound
7	skins	skin	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 Lie	obl
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 door	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 door	det
10	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Lie	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 hut	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 hut	det
13	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 door	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Lie	punct
15	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Lie	punct
16	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Lie	parataxis
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 answered	obj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 lay	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 lay	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 boy	det
21	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 lay	nsubj
22	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Lie	parataxis
23	down	down	ADV	_	22 lay	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 came	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 came	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 squirrels	det
27	squirrels	squirrel	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 came	nsubj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 bears	cc
29	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 bears	amod
30	bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 squirrels	conj
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 birds	cc
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 birds	det
33	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 squirrels	conj
34	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 lay	advcl
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 talked	cc
36	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 came	conj
37	to	to	ADP	_	38 him	case
38	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 talked	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Lie	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	lie down in a quote	imperative	witch not said here		that buffalo skins	by the door of the hut	tree rules
2	answer speech: assert	past		witch			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent she=Eventuality
3	lie down	past	the boy			down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	come	past	the squirrels and little bears and the birds				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	talk	past	the squirrels and little bears and the birds not said here	boy			vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to he=Co-Agent

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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