The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 2, sentence 16
So they put their heads together and laid another trap for her.
Who acts: flowers · What happens: put, lay · To what, where: heads, trap
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (flowers), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 put | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 put | nsubj |
| 3 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 heads | nmod:poss |
| 5 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 put | obj |
| 6 | together | together | ADV | _ | 3 put | advmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 laid | cc |
| 8 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 put | conj |
| 9 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 trap | det |
| 10 | trap | trap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 laid | obj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 her | case |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 laid | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past | flowers = flower | flowers's heads | together property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent head=Goal | |||
| 2 | lay | past | flowers = flower not said here | another trap | for woman | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent trap=Result for she=Beneficiary |
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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