The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 80
She had good ears, and had laid to heart the story about Ahti.
Who acts: Maie · What happens: have, lay · To what, where: good ears, heart
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Maie), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 ears | amod |
| 4 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 had | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 laid | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 laid | cc |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 laid | aux |
| 8 | laid | lay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 had | conj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 heart | mark |
| 10 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 laid | xcomp |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 story | det |
| 12 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 laid | obj |
| 13 | about | about | ADP | _ | 14 Ahti | case |
| 14 | Ahti | Ahti | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 story | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Maie | good ears | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Patient | ||||
| 2 | lay | past · perfect | Maie not said here | heart | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent story=Theme about ahti=Destination |
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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