The Blue Fairy Book, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 15

Beside them on the ground lay a little lamb, and behind them perched a little white dove with its head tucked under its wings.

What happens: lie, perch, tuck · To what, where: little lamb, ground, little white dove, wings

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Snow-white and Rose-red. 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	Beside	beside	ADP	_	2 them	case
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 lay	obl
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 ground	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 ground	det
5	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lay	obl
6	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 lamb	det
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 lamb	amod
9	lamb	lamb	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lay	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 perched	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 perched	cc
12	behind	behind	ADP	_	13 them	case
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 perched	obl
14	perched	perch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 lay	conj
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 dove	det
16	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 dove	amod
17	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 dove	amod
18	dove	dove	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 perched	obj
19	with	with	ADP	_	21 head	case
20	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 head	nmod:poss
21	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 dove	nmod
22	tucked	tuck	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 dove	acl
23	under	under	ADP	_	25 wings	case
24	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 wings	nmod:poss
25	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 tucked	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lie	past	a little lamb	the ground	beside snowflakes = snowflake	tree rules
2	perch	past	a little white dove		behind snowflakes = snowflake; with dove's head	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent dove=Theme behind they=Destination
3	tuck	participle	a little white dove not said here	dove's wings		vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent under wing=Trajectory

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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