The Red Fairy Book, Brother and Sister, sentence 92
As soon as they were sure this was the case, the old witch tied a cap on her daughter’s head and laid her in the Queen’s bed.
Who acts: adventures, this, old witch · What happens: be, tie, lay · To what, where: case, cap, witch, bed
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Brother and Sister. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (adventures, this, old witch), 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 tied | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 sure | mark |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 sure | nsubj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 sure | cop |
| 6 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 soon | conj |
| 7 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 case | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 case | cop |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 case | det |
| 10 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sure | ccomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 soon | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 witch | det |
| 13 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 witch | amod |
| 14 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 tied | nsubj |
| 15 | tied | tie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 cap | det |
| 17 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 tied | obj |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 head | case |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 20 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 head | nmod:poss |
| 21 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 20 daughter | case |
| 22 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 tied | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 laid | cc |
| 24 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 tied | conj |
| 25 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 laid | obj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 bed | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Queen | det |
| 28 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 bed | nmod:poss |
| 29 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 28 Queen | case |
| 30 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 laid | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 tied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | adventures = adventure | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | this | the case | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | tie | past | the old witch | a cap | on witch's daughter's head; soon property | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent cap=Patient on head=Co-Patient | |||
| 4 | lay | past | the old witch not said here | witch | the Queen's bed | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme in bed=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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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