The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 1, sentence 78
Then the stepmother laid her ugly daughter in the Queen’s place, and covered her up with the clothes, so that nothing of her was seen.
Who acts: stepmother · What happens: lay, cover up, see · To what, where: ugly daughter, place, daughter, nothing
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dwarfs, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stepmother), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 laid | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 stepmother | det |
| 3 | stepmother | stepmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 laid | nsubj |
| 4 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ugly | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 daughter | amod |
| 7 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 laid | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 place | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Queen | det |
| 10 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 place | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 10 Queen | case |
| 12 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 laid | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 covered | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 covered | cc |
| 15 | covered | cover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 laid | parataxis |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 covered | obj |
| 17 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 covered | compound:prt |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 clothes | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 clothes | det |
| 20 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 15 covered | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 seen | punct |
| 22 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 28 seen | mark |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 seen | mark |
| 24 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 28 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 her | case |
| 26 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 nothing | nmod |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 seen | aux:pass |
| 28 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 covered | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 laid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay | past | the stepmother | stepmother's ugly daughter | the Queen's place | then | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme in place=Destination | ||
| 2 | cover up | past | daughter | with the clothes | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent she=Destination with clothes=Theme | ||||
| 3 | see | past · passive | nothing | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
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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