The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 50

Then the witch got up and laid about her among the plates and dishes, so that the pieces flew about their ears, just as she had done when she was cheated the first time.

Who acts: witch, pieces, piece · What happens: get up, lay, fly, do, cheat · To what, where: piece

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (witch, pieces, piece), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 got	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 witch	det
3	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 got	nsubj
4	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 got	compound:prt
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 laid	cc
7	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 got	conj
8	about	about	ADP	_	9 her	case
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 laid	obl
10	among	among	ADP	_	12 plates	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 plates	det
12	plates	plate	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 laid	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 dishes	cc
14	dishes	dish	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 plates	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 flew	punct
16	so	so	SCONJ	_	20 flew	mark
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 flew	mark
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 pieces	det
19	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 flew	nsubj
20	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 got	parataxis
21	about	about	ADP	_	23 ears	case
22	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 ears	nmod:poss
23	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 flew	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 done	punct
25	just	just	ADV	_	29 done	advmod
26	as	as	SCONJ	_	29 done	mark
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 done	nsubj
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 done	aux
29	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 flew	conj
30	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	33 cheated	advmod
31	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 cheated	nsubj
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 cheated	aux:pass
33	cheated	cheat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 done	advcl
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 time	det
35	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	36 time	amod
36	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 cheated	obl:unmarked
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 got	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	get up	past	the witch		then		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	lay	past	the witch not said here			about witch; among the plates and dishes	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent about she=Destination
3	fly	past	the pieces			about dishes's ears	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about ear=Location
4	do	past · perfect	piece				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	cheat	past · passive		piece	time		vn cheat-10.6.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Source

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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