The Red Fairy Book, The Hen That Lays Golden Eggs., sentence 14

And again a golden egg lay on the table.

Who acts: golden egg · What happens: lie · To what, where: table

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 (golden egg), 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	_	6 lay	cc
2	again	again	ADV	_	6 lay	advmod
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 egg	det
4	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 egg	amod
5	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lay	nsubj
6	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 table	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 table	det
9	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lay	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	past	a golden egg			the table	again		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on table=Location

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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