The Violet Fairy Book, The Finest Liar in the World, sentence 38
And honey lay ankle-deep in the valley and knee-deep on the hills.
Who acts: honey · What happens: lay · To what, where: valley
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Finest Liar in the World. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (honey), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 lay | cc |
| 2 | honey | honey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lay | nsubj |
| 3 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | ankle | ankle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 deep | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 ankle | punct |
| 6 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 lay | xcomp |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 valley | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 valley | det |
| 9 | valley | valley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lay | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 deep | cc |
| 11 | knee | knee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 deep | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 knee | punct |
| 13 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 lay | conj |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 hills | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 hills | det |
| 16 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 deep | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay | present | honey | the valley | deep property | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in valley=Destination |
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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