The Red Fairy Book, The Marvellous Musician, sentence 18
Lay your front paws in this crack.’
Who acts: you · What happens: lay · To what, where: front paws, crack
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Marvellous Musician. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | Lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 paws | nmod:poss |
| 3 | front | front | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 paws | amod |
| 4 | paws | paw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Lay | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 crack | case |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 crack | det |
| 7 | crack | crack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Lay | obl |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Lay | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay | imperative | you not said here | your front paws | this crack | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent paw=Theme in crack=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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