The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 49

Down they went on their knees and gathered up everything they could lay hands on.

Who acts: innkeeper, everything · What happens: go, gather up, lay · To what, where: knees, hands

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (innkeeper, everything), 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	Down	down	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 knees	case
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 knees	nmod:poss
6	knees	knee	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 went	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 gathered	cc
8	gathered	gather	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
9	up	up	ADP	_	8 gathered	compound:prt
10	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	13 lay	nsubj
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 lay	nsubj
12	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 lay	aux
13	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 gathered	advcl
14	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 lay	obj
15	on	on	ADV	_	13 lay	advmod
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	innkeeper		innkeeper's knees	down property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on knee=Location
2	gather up	past	innkeeper not said here				vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	lay	could	everything	hands			vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Result

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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