The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Watch, sentence 115
As each drew near she laid her basket at Balanice’s feet, saying:
Who acts: each, Queen · What happens: draw, lay, say · To what, where: basket, feet · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Watch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (each, Queen), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 drew | mark |
| 2 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 drew | nsubj |
| 3 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 saying | advcl |
| 4 | near | near | ADP | _ | 6 laid | mark |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 laid | nsubj |
| 6 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 drew | ccomp |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 basket | nmod:poss |
| 8 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 laid | obj |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 feet | case |
| 10 | Balanice | Balanice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 feet | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 10 Balanice | case |
| 12 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 laid | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 saying | punct |
| 14 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 saying | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | past | each | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | lay | past | Queen | Queen's basket | Balanice's feet | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent basket=Theme at foot=Destination | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | gerund | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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 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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