The Yellow Fairy Book, The White Duck, sentence 43
And there, laid out on the marble floor of the court, dead and stone cold, were her three children.
What happens: lay out, be · To what, where: marble floor, Duck
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Duck. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 laid | cc |
| 2 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 laid | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 laid | punct |
| 4 | laid | lay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 laid | compound:prt |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 floor | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 floor | det |
| 8 | marble | marble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 floor | compound |
| 9 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 laid | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 court | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 court | det |
| 12 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 floor | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 dead | punct |
| 14 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 court | amod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 stone | cc |
| 16 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 court | conj |
| 17 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 stone | amod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 cold | punct |
| 19 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 her | cop |
| 20 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 laid | obl |
| 21 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 children | nummod |
| 22 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 laid | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 laid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay out | participle | the marble floor of the court and stone; there | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on floor=Destination | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | Duck | tree rules |
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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