The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 2, sentence 27

‘Come and sleep a bit with your head in my lap,’ she said to Minnikin, and as he slept she put a golden dress on him.

Who acts: Princess, Minnikin · What happens: come, sleep, say, put · To what, where: bit, lap, Minnikin, golden dress · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mother Holle, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, Minnikin), 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 Come	punct
2	Come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 said	ccomp
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 sleep	cc
4	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Come	conj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bit	det
6	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sleep	obj
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 head	case
8	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 head	nmod:poss
9	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bit	nmod
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 lap	case
11	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 lap	nmod:poss
12	lap	lap	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sleep	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct
14	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 said	nsubj
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 Minnikin	case
18	Minnikin	Minnikin	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 said	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 put	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 put	cc
21	as	as	SCONJ	_	23 slept	mark
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 slept	nsubj
23	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 put	advcl
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 put	nsubj
25	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 said	conj
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 dress	det
27	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 dress	amod
28	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 put	obj
29	on	on	ADP	_	30 him	case
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 put	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	infinitive						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	sleep	infinitive		a bit		my lap	with your head	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent bit=Value in lap=Location
3	say speech: assert	past	Princess		Minnikin			vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to minnikin=Experiencer clause=Topic
4	sleep	past	Minnikin					vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	put	past	Princess	a golden dress			on Minnikin	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent dress=Theme on he=Destination

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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