The Yellow Fairy Book, How to Tell a True Princess, sentence 14

Then she put twenty mattresses on top of the pea, and twenty eider-down quilts on the top of the mattresses.

Who acts: water, twenty eider down · What happens: put, quilt · To what, where: twenty mattresses, top

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How to Tell a True Princess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (water, twenty eider down), 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	3 put	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 put	nsubj
3	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 mattresses	nummod
5	mattresses	mattress	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 put	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	7 top	case
7	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 put	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 pea	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 pea	det
10	pea	pea	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 top	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 quilts	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 quilts	cc
13	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 down	nummod
14	eider	eider	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 down	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 eider	punct
16	down	down	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 quilts	nsubj
17	quilts	quilt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 put	conj
18	on	on	ADP	_	20 top	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 top	det
20	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 quilts	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 mattresses	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 mattresses	det
23	mattresses	mattress	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 top	nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	past	water	twenty mattresses		top of the pea	then		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent mattress=Theme on top=Destination
2	quilt	present	twenty eider down			the top of the mattresses			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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