The Blue Fairy Book, The Terrible Head, sentence 80

And by the banks of that river, there he found the three Terrible Women all asleep beneath a poplar tree, and the dead poplar leaves lay all about them.

Who acts: boy, dead poplar leaves · What happens: find, lay · To what, where: three Terrible Women

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Terrible Head. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, dead poplar leaves), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	11 found	cc
2	by	by	ADP	_	4 banks	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 banks	det
4	banks	bank	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 found	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 river	case
6	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 river	det
7	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 banks	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 banks	punct
9	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	11 found	expl
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 found	nsubj
11	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Women	det
13	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 Women	nummod
14	Terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 Women	amod
15	Women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 found	obj
16	all	all	ADV	_	17 asleep	advmod
17	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 Women	amod
18	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	21 tree	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 tree	det
20	poplar	poplar	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 tree	compound
21	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 asleep	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 lay	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 lay	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 leaves	det
25	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 leaves	amod
26	poplar	poplar	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 leaves	compound
27	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 lay	nsubj
28	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 found	parataxis
29	all	all	ADV	_	28 lay	advmod
30	about	about	ADP	_	31 them	case
31	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 lay	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past	boy	the three Terrible Women		there		by the banks of that river	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Topic
2	lay	present	the dead poplar leaves					about rivers = river; all property	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent about they=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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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