The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 4, sentence 2
When she was laid down again the two women covered her up.
Who acts: two women · What happens: lay down, cover up · To what, where: magician
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two women), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 laid | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 laid | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 laid | aux:pass |
| 4 | laid | lay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 covered | advcl |
| 5 | down | down | ADP | _ | 4 laid | compound:prt |
| 6 | again | again | ADV | _ | 4 laid | advmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 women | det |
| 8 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 women | nummod |
| 9 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 covered | nsubj |
| 10 | covered | cover | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 covered | obj |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 covered | compound:prt |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 covered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay down | past · passive | magician | again | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Result | ||||
| 2 | cover up | past | the two women | magician | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent she=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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