The Red Fairy Book, The Hen That Lays Golden Eggs., sentence 10
And she instantly laid a golden egg.
Who acts: Lay · What happens: lay · To what, where: golden egg
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Hen That Lays Golden Eggs.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lay), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 laid | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 laid | nsubj |
| 3 | instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 4 laid | advmod |
| 4 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 egg | det |
| 6 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 egg | amod |
| 7 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 laid | obj |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 laid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay | past | Lay | a golden egg | instantly property | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result |
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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