English Fairy Tales, The Three Heads of the Well, sentence 21

“Yes,” said she, and taking it in her lap combed it with a silver comb, and then placed it upon a primrose bank.

Who acts: lady, taking · What happens: say, take, comb, place · To what, where: bank, lap, primrose bank · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (lady, taking), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 said	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 said	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 combed	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 combed	cc
9	taking	take	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 combed	csubj
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 taking	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 lap	case
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 lap	nmod:poss
13	lap	lap	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 taking	obl
14	combed	comb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	conj
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 combed	obj
16	with	with	ADP	_	19 comb	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 comb	det
18	silver	silver	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 comb	amod
19	comb	comb	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 combed	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 placed	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 placed	cc
22	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 placed	advmod
23	placed	place	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	conj
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 placed	obj
25	upon	upon	ADP	_	28 bank	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 bank	det
27	primrose	primrose	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 bank	compound
28	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 placed	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	lady					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	take	gerund		bank	lady's lap			vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Value in lap=Location
3	comb	past	taking	bank			with a silver comb	vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
4	place	past	lady not said here	bank	a primrose bank	then		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme upon bank=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: «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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