The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 70

She laid a piece of ice on the reindeer’s head, and then read what was written on the stock-fish.

Who acts: woman · What happens: lay, read, write · To what, where: piece, head

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 laid	nsubj
2	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 piece	det
4	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 laid	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 ice	case
6	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 piece	nmod
7	on	on	ADP	_	11 head	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 reindeer	det
9	reindeer	reindeer	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 head	nmod:poss
10	’s	's	PART	_	9 reindeer	case
11	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 laid	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 read	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 read	cc
14	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 read	advmod
15	read	read	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 laid	parataxis
16	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 written	nsubj:pass
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 written	aux:pass
18	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 read	ccomp
19	on	on	ADP	_	23 fish	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 fish	det
21	stock	stock	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 fish	compound
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 stock	punct
23	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 written	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 laid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lay	past	woman	a piece of ice	the reindeer's head			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent piece=Theme on head=Destination
2	read	infinitive				then		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	write	past · passive					on the stock fish	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on fish=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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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