The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 2, sentence 52
And again the King’s daughter said to him, ‘Sleep a while on my lap,’ and while Minnikin lay there she drew some silver raiment over him.
Who acts: daughter, Minnikin · What happens: say, sleep, lie, draw · To what, where: King, lap, silver raiment · 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 (daughter, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 said | cc |
| 2 | again | again | ADV | _ | 7 said | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 King | det |
| 4 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 4 King | case |
| 6 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 him | case |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Sleep | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 Sleep | punct |
| 12 | Sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 while | det |
| 14 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Sleep | obj |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 lap | case |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 lap | nmod:poss |
| 17 | lap | lap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Sleep | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Sleep | punct |
| 19 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 Sleep | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 drew | cc |
| 21 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 23 lay | mark |
| 22 | Minnikin | Minnikin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 lay | nsubj |
| 23 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 drew | advcl |
| 24 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 lay | advmod |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 drew | nsubj |
| 26 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | conj |
| 27 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 29 raiment | det |
| 28 | silver | silver | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 raiment | amod |
| 29 | raiment | raiment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 drew | obj |
| 30 | over | over | ADP | _ | 31 him | case |
| 31 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 drew | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the King's daughter | King | again | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to he=Experiencer clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | sleep | infinitive | my lap | while | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | lie | past | Minnikin | there | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | draw | past | daughter | some silver raiment | over Minnikin | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent raiment=Theme |
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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