The Red Fairy Book, The Seven Foals, sentence 14

The lad was willing enough, so he sat down in the cleft of the rock beside the old hag, and laid his head on her knees, and she combed his hair all day while he lay there and gave himself up to idleness.

Who acts: lad, hag · What happens: be, sit down, lay, comb, lie, give up · To what, where: cleft, head, knees, hair, lad

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Seven Foals. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lad, hag), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 lad	det
2	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 willing	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 willing	cop
4	willing	willing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	enough	enough	ADV	_	4 willing	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 sat	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	9 sat	advmod
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 sat	nsubj
9	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 willing	parataxis
10	down	down	ADP	_	9 sat	compound:prt
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 cleft	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 cleft	det
13	cleft	cleft	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sat	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 rock	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 rock	det
16	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 cleft	nmod
17	beside	beside	ADP	_	20 hag	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 hag	det
19	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 hag	amod
20	hag	hag	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 rock	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 laid	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 laid	cc
23	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 sat	conj
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 head	nmod:poss
25	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 laid	obj
26	on	on	ADP	_	28 knees	case
27	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 knees	nmod:poss
28	knees	knee	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 laid	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 combed	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 combed	cc
31	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 combed	nsubj
32	combed	comb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 willing	conj
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 hair	nmod:poss
34	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 combed	obj
35	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	36 day	det
36	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 combed	obl:unmarked
37	while	while	SCONJ	_	39 lay	mark
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 lay	nsubj
39	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 combed	advcl
40	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	39 lay	advmod
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 gave	cc
42	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 lay	conj
43	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	42 gave	iobj
44	up	up	ADP	_	42 gave	compound:prt
45	to	to	ADP	_	46 idleness	case
46	idleness	idleness	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 gave	obl
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 willing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the lad					enough, willing property	tree rules
2	sit down	past	lad			the cleft of the rock beside the old hag			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in cleft=Location
3	lay	past	lad not said here	lad's head		hag's knees			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme on knee=Destination
4	comb	past	hag	lad's hair			day		vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient
5	lie	past	lad			there			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	give up	past	lad not said here		lad			to idleness	vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent himself=Theme to idleness=Recipient

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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