The Yellow Fairy Book, In the Land of Souls (21), sentence 26
So, lay down your body here; your bow and arrows, your skin and your dog.
Who acts: you · What happens: lay down · To what, where: body
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, In the Land of Souls (21). 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 lay | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 lay | punct |
| 3 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | down | down | ADP | _ | 3 lay | compound:prt |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 body | nmod:poss |
| 6 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lay | obj |
| 7 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 lay | advmod |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 bow | punct |
| 9 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 bow | nmod:poss |
| 10 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lay | parataxis |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 arrows | cc |
| 12 | arrows | arrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 bow | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 skin | punct |
| 14 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 skin | nmod:poss |
| 15 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bow | conj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 dog | cc |
| 17 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 dog | nmod:poss |
| 18 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bow | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay down | imperative | you not said here | your body | here | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Result |
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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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