The Red Fairy Book, The Seven Foals, sentence 99

But when the priest had laid his hands on the princes and read the blessing, they went out of the church again, and Cinderlad went out too, but he took with him a flask of wine and some consecrated bread.

Who acts: priest, foals, Cinderlad · What happens: lay, read, go out, take, consecrate · To what, where: hands, blessing, church, flask

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 (priest, foals, Cinderlad), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	13 read	cc
2	when	when	SCONJ	_	6 laid	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 priest	det
4	priest	priest	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 laid	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 laid	aux
6	laid	lay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 read	advcl
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 hands	nmod:poss
8	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 laid	obj
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 princes	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 princes	det
11	princes	prince	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 laid	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 read	cc
13	read	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 blessing	det
15	blessing	blessing	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 read	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 went	punct
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 went	nsubj
18	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 read	parataxis
19	out	out	ADP	_	22 church	case
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 church	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 church	det
22	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 went	obl
23	again	again	ADV	_	18 went	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 went	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 went	cc
26	Cinderlad	Cinderlad	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 went	nsubj
27	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 went	conj
28	out	out	ADV	_	27 went	advmod
29	too	too	ADV	_	27 went	advmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 took	punct
31	but	but	CCONJ	_	33 took	cc
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 took	nsubj
33	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 went	conj
34	with	with	ADP	_	35 him	case
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 took	obl
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 flask	det
37	flask	flask	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 took	obj
38	of	of	ADP	_	39 wine	case
39	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 flask	nmod
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 bread	cc
41	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	43 bread	det
42	consecrated	consecrate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	43 bread	amod
43	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 wine	conj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 read	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	lay	past · perfect	the priest	priest's hands		on the princes	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Theme on prince=Destination
2	read	present		the blessing			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blessing=Topic
3	go out	past	foals = foal	the church	again		tree rules
4	go out	past	Cinderlad			out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	take	past	Cinderlad	a flask of wine and some consecrated bread		with priest	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flask=Theme
6	consecrate	participle					vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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