Grimm's Fairy Stories, Little Snow White, sentence 17

Everything was spruce and neat in the cottage: on the table was spread a white cloth, and there were seven little plates with seven little loaves and seven little glasses with wine in them; and knives and forks laid in order, and by the wall stood seven little beds.

What happens: be, spread, lay, stand · To what, where: Everything spruce, cottage, white cloth, table, order, seven little beds

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Little Snow White. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	Everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	3 spruce	compound
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 spruce	cop
3	spruce	spruce	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 laid	nsubj:pass
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 neat	cc
5	neat	neat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 spruce	conj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 cottage	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cottage	det
8	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 neat	obl
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 spread	punct
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 table	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 table	det
12	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 spread	obl
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 spread	aux:pass
14	spread	spread	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 spruce	conj
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 cloth	det
16	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 cloth	amod
17	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 spread	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 were	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 were	cc
20	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	21 were	expl
21	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 laid	aux:pass
22	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 plates	nummod
23	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 plates	amod
24	plates	plate	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 were	nsubj
25	with	with	ADP	_	28 loaves	case
26	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 loaves	nummod
27	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 loaves	amod
28	loaves	loaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 plates	nmod
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 glasses	cc
30	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 glasses	nummod
31	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 glasses	amod
32	glasses	glass	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 loaves	conj
33	with	with	ADP	_	34 wine	case
34	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 glasses	nmod
35	in	in	ADP	_	36 them	case
36	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 wine	nmod
37	;	;	PUNCT	_	42 laid	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 laid	cc
39	knives	knife	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 laid	nsubj
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 forks	cc
41	forks	fork	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 knives	conj
42	laid	lay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
43	in	in	ADP	_	44 order	case
44	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 laid	obl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 stood	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 stood	cc
47	by	by	ADP	_	49 wall	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 wall	det
49	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 stood	obl
50	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 laid	conj
51	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	53 beds	nummod
52	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 beds	amod
53	beds	bed	NOUN	Number=Plur	50 stood	obj
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	42 laid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Everything spruce			tree rules
2	be			the cottage		tree rules
3	spread	past · passive	a white cloth	the table		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: cloth=Theme on table=Destination
4	lay	past · passive	Everything spruce	order		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in order=Destination
5	stand	past	seven little beds		by the wall	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bed=Theme by wall=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: «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 11027 (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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