The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 207
‘Ouf,’ said John, laying her gently at the foot of a tree.
Who acts: Ouf · What happens: say, lay · To what, where: Ouf, foot · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ouf), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | Ouf | Ouf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ouf | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ouf | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 laying | punct |
| 8 | laying | lay | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 said | advcl |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 laying | obj |
| 10 | gently | gently | ADV | _ | 8 laying | advmod |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 foot | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 foot | det |
| 13 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 laying | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 tree | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 tree | det |
| 16 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 foot | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Ouf | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | lay | gerund | Ouf not said here | Ouf | the foot of a tree | gently property | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme at foot=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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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