The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 53

I shall lay two pieces of wood in the bed to answer for us when the witch speaks to us.

Who acts: I, witch · What happens: lay, answer, speak · To what, where: two pieces, bed, us · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (I, witch), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 lay	nsubj
2	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 lay	aux
3	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 pieces	nummod
5	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lay	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 wood	case
7	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pieces	nmod
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 bed	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 bed	det
10	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lay	obl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 answer	mark
12	answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 lay	advcl
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 us	case
14	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 answer	obl
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 speaks	advmod
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 witch	det
17	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 speaks	nsubj
18	speaks	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 answer	advcl
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 us	case
20	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 speaks	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	lay	shall	I	two pieces of wood		the bed		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent piece=Theme in bed=Destination
2	answer speech: assert	to-infinitive	I not said here				for us	vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	speak speech: other	present	the witch		us			vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to we=Co-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 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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