English Fairy Tales, The Three Heads of the Well, sentence 20

And lay me on a bank to dry, That I may look pretty, When somebody passes by.”

Who acts: you, That, somebody · What happens: lay, dry, look, pass by · To what, where: me, bank

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Three Heads of the Well. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, That, somebody), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	2 lay	cc
2	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 lay	obj
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 bank	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bank	det
6	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lay	obl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 dry	mark
8	dry	dry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 lay	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 look	punct
10	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 look	nsubj
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 look	nsubj
12	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 look	aux
13	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 lay	conj
14	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	13 look	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 passes	punct
16	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 passes	advmod
17	somebody	somebody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	18 passes	nsubj
18	passes	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 look	conj
19	by	by	ADP	_	18 passes	advmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 lay	punct
21	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lay	imperative	you not said here	me	a bank		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme on bank=Destination
2	dry	to-infinitive	you not said here				vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	look	may	That			pretty property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	pass by	present	somebody				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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