The Green Fairy Book, Spindle, Shuttle, and Needle, sentence 6

Then she laid her hands on the girl’s head, blessed her, and added: ‘Mind and be good, and then all will go well with you.’

Who acts: godmother, all · What happens: lay, bless, add, be, go · To what, where: hands, head, godmother, Mind

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Spindle, Shuttle, and Needle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (godmother, all), 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	3 laid	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 laid	nsubj
3	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 hands	nmod:poss
5	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 laid	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	10 head	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 girl	det
8	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 head	nmod:poss
9	’s	's	PART	_	8 girl	case
10	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 laid	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 blessed	punct
12	blessed	bless	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 laid	conj
13	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 blessed	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 added	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 added	cc
16	added	add	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 laid	parataxis
17	:	:	PUNCT	_	19 Mind	punct
18	‘	'	PUNCT	_	19 Mind	punct
19	Mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 added	obj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 good	cc
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 good	cop
22	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 Mind	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 go	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 go	cc
25	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	28 go	advmod
26	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	28 go	nsubj
27	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 go	aux
28	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 added	conj
29	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	28 go	advmod
30	with	with	ADP	_	31 you	case
31	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 go	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 laid	punct
33	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 laid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lay	past	godmother	godmother's hands	the girl's head	then		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Theme on head=Destination
2	bless	past	godmother not said here	godmother				vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
3	add speech: assert	past		Mind				vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Patient
4	is	infinitive					good property	tree rules
5	go	future	all			then	with you; well property	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with you=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 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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