The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 3, sentence 23
There lay her dear, kind sheep, silent and motionless, upon the pavement!
What happens: lie · To what, where: dear kind sheep
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Sheep, part 3. 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 lay | expl |
| 2 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 sheep | nmod:poss |
| 4 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 sheep | amod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 sheep | punct |
| 6 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 sheep | amod |
| 7 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 lay | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 silent | punct |
| 9 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 lay | conj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 motionless | cc |
| 11 | motionless | motionless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 silent | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 pavement | punct |
| 13 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 15 pavement | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 pavement | det |
| 15 | pavement | pavement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lay | obl |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | past | sight's dear kind sheep | there | upon the pavement | 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 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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