The Red Fairy Book, The Hen That Lays Golden Eggs., sentence 4

‘It lays as well as it did when it belonged to that paltry knight,’ he said; ‘indeed I think the eggs are heavier than ever.’

Who acts: supper, Jack, I, eggs · What happens: lay, do, belong, say, think, be · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (supper, Jack, I, eggs), 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	_	3 lays	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 lays	nsubj
3	lays	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=ADV	3 lays	advmod
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 as	fixed
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 did	mark
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 did	nsubj
8	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 said	advcl
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 belonged	advmod
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 belonged	nsubj
11	belonged	belong	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 did	advcl
12	to	to	ADP	_	15 knight	case
13	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 knight	det
14	paltry	paltry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 knight	amod
15	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 belonged	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 did	punct
17	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 did	punct
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 said	nsubj
19	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lays	parataxis
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 think	punct
21	‘	'	PUNCT	_	24 think	punct
22	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	24 think	advmod
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 think	nsubj
24	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 lays	conj
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 eggs	det
26	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 heavier	nsubj
27	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 heavier	cop
28	heavier	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	24 think	ccomp
29	than	than	ADP	_	30 ever	case
30	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	28 heavier	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lays	punct
32	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 lays	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	lay	present	supper		vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	do	past	supper		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	belong	past	supper	to that paltry knight	vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme
4	say speech: assert	past	Jack		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	think speech: other	present	I	indeed property	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is	present	the eggs	heavy property	tree rules

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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