--- title: Lay the doll in a basket lined with soft wool, and leave it alone, f… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Lay the doll in a basket lined with soft wool, and leave it alone, for it will not need any food, and by-and-by you will find it has grown to be the size of a baby. Who acts: you, doll. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Child Who Came From an Egg, with its dependency tree and --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/12/24/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Violet Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/) / [The Child Who Came From an Egg](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/12/) / 24 # The Violet Fairy Book, The Child Who Came From an Egg, sentence 24 Lay the doll in a basket lined with soft wool, and leave it alone, for it will not need any food, and by-and-by you will find it has grown to be the size of a baby. **Who acts:** you, doll · **What happens:** lay, line, leave, not need, find, grow · **To what, where:** doll, basket, food, size · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Child Who Came From an Egg. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, doll), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg641:12:24 # text = Lay the doll in a basket lined with soft wool, and leave it alone, for it will not need any food, and by-and-by you will find it has grown to be the size of a baby. 1 Lay lay VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 doll doll NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 basket basket NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 7 lined line VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 acl _ _ 8 with with ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 soft soft ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 wool wool NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 leave leave VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 alone alone ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 17 for for SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 19 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 20 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 21 advmod _ _ 21 need need VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 conj _ _ 22 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 23 det _ _ 23 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 26 by by SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ SpaceAfter=No 27 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 33 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 29 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 by by ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 32 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 33 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 conj _ _ 34 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 35 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 36 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 33 ccomp _ _ 37 to to PART TO _ 40 mark _ _ 38 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 40 cop _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 size size NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 xcomp _ _ 41 of of ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 baby baby NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lay** | imperative | you *not said here* | the doll | | a basket | | | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent doll=Theme in basket=Destination | | 2 | **line** | participle | | a basket *not said here* | | | | with soft wool | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with wool=Theme | | 3 | **leave** | infinitive | you *not said here* | doll | | | | alone *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 4 | **not** **need** | future | doll | any food | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot food=Theme | | 5 | **find** | future | you | | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 6 | **grow** | present · perfect | doll | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **is a** | to-infinitive | doll *not said here* | the size | | | | of a baby | tree rules | 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:** «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/12/23/) - next →: [sentence 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/12/25/) - ↑ back to [The Child Who Came From an Egg](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/12/)