The Violet Fairy Book, The Boys With the Golden Stars, sentence 77

Then lay us in the sun, and do not come near us till the sun’s rays shall have dried off the dew,’ answered the other fish.

Who acts: you, sun · What happens: lay, not come, dry off, answer, ray · To what, where: us, sun, rays, other fish

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Boys With the Golden Stars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, sun), 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	2 lay	advmod
2	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 lay	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 sun	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sun	det
6	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lay	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 come	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 come	cc
9	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	11 come	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 come	advmod
11	come	come	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 lay	conj
12	near	near	ADP	_	13 us	case
13	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 come	obl
14	till	till	SCONJ	_	21 dried	mark
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 sun	det
16	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 rays	nmod:poss
17	’s	's	PART	_	16 sun	case
18	rays	ray	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 dried	nsubj:pass
19	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 dried	aux
20	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 dried	aux
21	dried	dry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 answered	advcl
22	off	off	ADP	_	24 dew	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 dew	det
24	dew	dew	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 dried	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 dried	punct
26	’	'	PUNCT	_	27 answered	punct
27	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 come	advcl
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 fish	det
29	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 fish	amod
30	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 answered	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lay	imperative	you not said here	us		the sun	then		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent we=Theme in sun=Destination
2	not come	infinitive · do-support	you not said here					near us	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near we=Location
3	dry off	shall · perfect · passive		the sun's rays				off the dew	tree rules
4	answer speech: assert	past	you not said here		the other fish				vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent fish=Eventuality
5	ray		the sun						nom ray «phenomenon 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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