The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 3, sentence 30
Then you must lay hands on the mare and foal and catch them.
Who acts: you · What happens: lay, catch · To what, where: hands
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 3. 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 lay | advmod |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 lay | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 lay | aux |
| 4 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 lay | obj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 mare | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 mare | det |
| 8 | mare | mare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lay | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 foal | cc |
| 10 | foal | foal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 mare | conj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 catch | cc |
| 12 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 lay | conj |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 catch | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay | must | you | hands | then | on the mare and foal | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Theme on mare=Destination | ||
| 2 | catch | infinitive | you not said here | hands = hand | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
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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