English Fairy Tales, The Rose-tree, sentence 17

So the little one laid her head in the woman's lap, who proceeded to comb the yellow silken hair.

Who acts: little one, lap · What happens: lay, proceed, comb · To what, where: head, lap, yellow silken hair

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 (little one, 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	So	so	ADV	_	5 laid	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 one	det
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 one	amod
4	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 laid	nsubj
5	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 head	nmod:poss
7	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 laid	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	12 lap	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 woman	det
10	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lap	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 woman	case
12	lap	lap	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 laid	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 proceeded	punct
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 proceeded	nsubj
15	proceeded	proceed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 lap	acl:relcl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 comb	mark
17	comb	comb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 proceeded	xcomp
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 hair	det
19	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 hair	amod
20	silken	silken	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 hair	amod
21	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 comb	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 laid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	lay	past	the little one	stepmother's head	the woman's lap	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme in lap=Destination
2	proceed	past	the woman's lap			vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	comb	to-infinitive	the woman's lap not said here	the yellow silken 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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