The Violet Fairy Book, The Child Who Came From an Egg, sentence 36

Three months passed, and, as the old woman had bidden her, the queen took the egg from her bosom, and laid it snugly amidst the warm woollen folds.

Who acts: Three months, queen, woman · What happens: pass, bid, take, lay, bosom · To what, where: old woman, egg, bosom

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 (Three months, queen, woman), 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	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 months	nummod
2	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 passed	nsubj
3	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 bidden	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 bidden	cc
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 bidden	punct
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 bidden	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 woman	det
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 woman	amod
10	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bidden	nsubj:pass
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 bidden	aux
12	bidden	bid	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 passed	parataxis
13	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 bidden	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 took	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 queen	det
16	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 took	nsubj
17	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 passed	conj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 egg	det
19	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 took	obj
20	from	from	ADP	_	22 bosom	case
21	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 bosom	nmod:poss
22	bosom	bosom	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 took	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 laid	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 laid	cc
25	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 passed	conj
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 laid	obj
27	snugly	snugly	ADV	_	25 laid	advmod
28	amidst	amidst	ADP	_	32 folds	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 folds	det
30	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 folds	amod
31	woollen	woollen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 folds	amod
32	folds	fold	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 laid	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 passed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	pass	past	Three months				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	bid	past · perfect · passive		the old woman			tree rules
3	take	past	the queen	the egg	woman's bosom		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent egg=Theme from bosom=Initial_Location
4	lay	past	Three months not said here	egg		amidst the warm woollen folds; snugly property	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Result
5	bosom		woman				nom bosom «state transitive»: poss=agent

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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