English Fairy Tales, The Rose-tree, sentence 16

She said to the child: “Come, lay your head on my lap that I may comb your hair.”

Who acts: stepmother, lap · What happens: say, come, lay, comb · To what, where: child, head, lap, hair · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Rose-tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stepmother, lap), 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	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 child	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 child	det
5	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 said	obl
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 Come	punct
7	“	"	PUNCT	_	8 Come	punct
8	Come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 lay	punct
10	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 Come	conj
11	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 head	nmod:poss
12	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lay	obj
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 lap	case
14	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 lap	nmod:poss
15	lap	lap	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lay	obl
16	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 comb	nsubj
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 comb	nsubj
18	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 comb	aux
19	comb	comb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 lap	acl:relcl
20	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 hair	nmod:poss
21	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 comb	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 Come	punct
23	”	"	PUNCT	_	8 Come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	stepmother		the child		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to child=Recipient clause=Topic
2	come in a quote	infinitive					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	lay in a quote	infinitive		your head		my lap	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme on lap=Destination
4	comb in a quote	may	my lap	your hair			vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient

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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