The Yellow Fairy Book, How to Tell a True Princess, sentence 20
I laid on something so hard that my whole body is black and blue.
Who acts: I, whole body · What happens: lay, be · To what, where: something
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 (I, whole body), 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 | 2 laid | nsubj |
| 2 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 something | case |
| 4 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 2 laid | obl |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 hard | advmod |
| 6 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 something | amod |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 black | mark |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 body | nmod:poss |
| 9 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 body | amod |
| 10 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 black | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 black | cop |
| 12 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 hard | advcl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 blue | cc |
| 14 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 black | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 laid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay | past | I | something | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on something=Destination | ||||
| 2 | is | present | my whole body | black property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | my whole body not said here | 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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