The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 7

‘Under the threshold is a stone, and under the stone is a sheep, and in the sheep’s body is a duck, and in the duck is an egg, and in the egg is my soul.

What happens: be · To what, where: stone, threshold, sheep, duck, body, egg

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10. 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	7 stone	punct
2	Under	under	ADP	_	4 threshold	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 threshold	det
4	threshold	threshold	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stone	obl
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 stone	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 stone	det
7	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 sheep	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 sheep	cc
10	under	under	ADP	_	12 stone	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 stone	det
12	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 sheep	obl
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 sheep	cop
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 sheep	det
15	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stone	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 duck	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 duck	cc
18	in	in	ADP	_	22 body	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 sheep	det
20	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 body	nmod:poss
21	’s	's	PART	_	20 sheep	case
22	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 duck	obl
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 duck	cop
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 duck	det
25	duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stone	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 egg	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 egg	cc
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 duck	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 duck	det
30	duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 egg	obl
31	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 egg	cop
32	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 egg	det
33	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 duck	conj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 soul	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 soul	cc
36	in	in	ADP	_	38 egg	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 egg	det
38	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 soul	obl
39	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 soul	cop
40	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 soul	nmod:poss
41	soul	soul	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stone	conj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 stone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a stone and a sheep and a duck and a egg and my soul	the threshold		tree rules
2	is a	present	a sheep	the stone		tree rules
3	is a	present	a duck and a egg	the sheep's body		tree rules
4	is a	present	a egg		in the duck	tree rules
5	is a	present	my soul	the egg		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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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