The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 78

They were cousins, and as their mothers were great friends, and constantly in and out of each other’s houses, they had often been laid in the same cradle, and had played and fought over their games.

Who acts: kinds · What happens: be, lay, play, fight · To what, where: cousins, great friends, kinds, same cradle

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (kinds), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 cousins	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 cousins	cop
3	cousins	cousin	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 friends	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 friends	cc
6	as	as	ADP	_	8 mothers	case
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 mothers	nmod:poss
8	mothers	mother	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 friends	obl
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 friends	cop
10	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 friends	amod
11	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 cousins	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 in	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 in	cc
14	constantly	constantly	ADV	_	15 in	advmod
15	in	in	ADV	_	3 cousins	advmod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 houses	cc
17	out	out	ADP	_	19 each	case
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 each	case
19	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	20 other	det
20	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 houses	nmod:poss
21	’s	's	PART	_	20 other	case
22	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 in	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 laid	punct
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 laid	nsubj
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 laid	aux
26	often	often	ADV	_	28 laid	advmod
27	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	28 laid	aux:pass
28	laid	lay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 cousins	acl
29	in	in	ADP	_	32 cradle	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 cradle	det
31	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 cradle	amod
32	cradle	cradle	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 laid	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 played	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 played	cc
35	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 played	aux
36	played	play	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 cousins	conj
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 fought	cc
38	fought	fight	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 played	conj
39	over	over	ADP	_	41 games	case
40	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 games	nmod:poss
41	games	game	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 fought	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 cousins	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	kinds = kind	cousins and great friends			tree rules
2	is a	past	kinds = kind not said here	great friends		as kinds's mothers	tree rules
3	lay	past · perfect · passive		kinds = kind	the same cradle	often property	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in cradle=Destination
4	play	past · perfect	kinds = kind not said here				vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	fight	past	kinds = kind not said here			over kinds's games	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.theme NP S_ING»: agent=Agent over game=Theme

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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