The Green Fairy Book, The Three Snake-leaves, sentence 30
So he picked up the leaves and laid one of them on the mouth and the other two on the eyes of the dead woman.
Who acts: power · What happens: pick up, lay · To what, where: leaves, eyes, one, mouth
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Snake-leaves. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (power), 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 picked | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 picked | nsubj |
| 3 | picked | pick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 picked | compound:prt |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 leaves | det |
| 6 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 picked | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 laid | cc |
| 8 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 picked | conj |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 laid | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 them | case |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 one | nmod |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 mouth | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 mouth | det |
| 14 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 laid | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 two | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 two | det |
| 17 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 two | amod |
| 18 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 picked | conj |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 eyes | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 eyes | det |
| 21 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 picked | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 woman | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 woman | det |
| 24 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 woman | amod |
| 25 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 eyes | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 picked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pick up | past | power | the leaves | the eyes of the dead woman | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Topic | |||
| 2 | lay | past | power not said here | one of leaves | the mouth | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent one=Theme on mouth=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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