English Fairy Tales, Molly Whuppie, sentence 21

She then put the straw ropes on the giant's lassies and the gold on herself and her sisters, and lay down.

Who acts: Molly · What happens: put, lay down · To what, where: straw ropes, lassies

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Molly Whuppie. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Molly), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 put	nsubj
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 put	advmod
3	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 ropes	det
5	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ropes	compound
6	ropes	rope	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 put	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	11 lassies	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 giant	det
9	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lassies	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 giant	case
11	lassies	lassie	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 put	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 gold	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 gold	det
14	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lassies	conj
15	on	on	ADP	_	16 herself	case
16	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	14 gold	nmod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 sisters	cc
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 sisters	nmod:poss
19	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 herself	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 lay	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 lay	cc
22	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 put	advcl
23	down	down	ADV	_	22 lay	advmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	past	Molly	the straw ropes		the giant's lassies and the gold on Molly	then		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent rope=Theme on lassie=Destination
2	lay down	infinitive	Molly not said here					down property	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: 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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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