The Red Fairy Book, The Hen That Lays Golden Eggs., sentence 13

‘Lay!’ he repeated the third time.

Who acts: Lay · What happens: repeat

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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	2 Lay	punct
2	Lay	Lay	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 repeated	nsubj
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Lay	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Lay	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 repeated	nsubj
6	repeated	repeat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 time	det
8	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	9 time	amod
9	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 repeated	obj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 repeated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	repeat	past	Lay				time		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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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