The Violet Fairy Book, The Child Who Came From an Egg, sentence 24

Lay the doll in a basket lined with soft wool, and leave it alone, for it will not need any food, and by-and-by you will find it has grown to be the size of a baby.

Who acts: you, doll · What happens: lay, line, leave, not need, find, grow · To what, where: doll, basket, food, size · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Child Who Came From an Egg. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, doll), 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	Lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 doll	det
3	doll	doll	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Lay	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 basket	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 basket	det
6	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Lay	obl
7	lined	line	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 basket	acl
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 wool	case
9	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 wool	amod
10	wool	wool	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lined	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 leave	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 leave	cc
13	leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Lay	conj
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 leave	obj
15	alone	alone	ADV	_	13 leave	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 need	punct
17	for	for	SCONJ	_	21 need	mark
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 need	nsubj
19	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 need	aux
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 need	advmod
21	need	need	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 leave	conj
22	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	23 food	det
23	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 need	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 find	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 find	cc
26	by	by	SCONJ	_	33 find	mark
27	-	-	PUNCT	_	33 find	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 find	cc
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 and	punct
30	by	by	ADP	_	31 you	case
31	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	33 find	nsubj
32	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 find	aux
33	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Lay	conj
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 grown	nsubj
35	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 grown	aux
36	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	33 find	ccomp
37	to	to	PART	_	40 size	mark
38	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	40 size	cop
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 size	det
40	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 grown	xcomp
41	of	of	ADP	_	43 baby	case
42	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 baby	det
43	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 size	nmod
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lay	imperative	you not said here	the doll	a basket		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent doll=Theme in basket=Destination
2	line	participle		a basket not said here		with soft wool	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with wool=Theme
3	leave	infinitive	you not said here	doll		alone property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	not need	future	doll	any food			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot food=Theme
5	find	future	you				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	grow	present · perfect	doll				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	is a	to-infinitive	doll not said here	the size		of a baby	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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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