The Red Fairy Book, Brother and Sister, sentence 98

She lifted the child from its cradle, laid it on her arm, and nursed it for some time.

Who acts: nurse · What happens: lift, lay, nurse · To what, where: child, cradle, arm

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 (nurse), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lifted	nsubj
2	lifted	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 child	det
4	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lifted	obj
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 cradle	case
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 cradle	nmod:poss
7	cradle	cradle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lifted	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 laid	punct
9	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 lifted	conj
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 laid	obj
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 arm	case
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 arm	nmod:poss
13	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 laid	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 nursed	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 nursed	cc
16	nursed	nurse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 lifted	conj
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 nursed	obj
18	for	for	ADP	_	20 time	case
19	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	20 time	det
20	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 nursed	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 lifted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	lift	past	nurse	the child	nursery's cradle		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent child=Theme from cradle=Destination
2	lay	past	nurse not said here	cradle	nurse's arm		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme on arm=Destination
3	nurse	past	nurse not said here	cradle		time	vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary

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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