The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 2, sentence 76

‘Sleep a while now on my lap,’ said she, and while he lay there she put a garment of brass upon him.

Who acts: Princess, Minnikin · What happens: sleep, say, lie, put · To what, where: lap, garment · 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 Sleep	punct
2	Sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	ccomp
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 while	det
4	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Sleep	obj
5	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 Sleep	advmod
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 lap	case
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 lap	nmod:poss
8	lap	lap	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Sleep	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Sleep	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Sleep	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 said	nsubj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 put	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 put	cc
15	while	while	SCONJ	_	17 lay	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 lay	nsubj
17	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 put	advcl
18	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 lay	advmod
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 put	nsubj
20	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 said	parataxis
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 garment	det
22	garment	garment	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 put	obj
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 brass	case
24	brass	brass	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 garment	nmod
25	upon	upon	ADP	_	26 him	case
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 put	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	infinitive			my lap	now; while		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	Princess					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	lie	past	Minnikin		there			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	put	past	Princess	a garment of brass			upon Minnikin	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent garment=Theme upon 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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