More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 19, sentence 135
He was placed in a luxurious chair, and rich wines and spices were set before him, and all sorts of delicate meats.
What happens: place, set, sort · To what, where: Jack, luxurious chair, rich wines, delicate meats
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 19. 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 placed | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 placed | aux:pass |
| 3 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 chair | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 chair | det |
| 6 | luxurious | luxurious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 chair | amod |
| 7 | chair | chair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 placed | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 set | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 set | cc |
| 10 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 wines | amod |
| 11 | wines | wine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 set | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 spices | cc |
| 13 | spices | spice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 wines | conj |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 set | aux:pass |
| 15 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 placed | conj |
| 16 | before | before | ADP | _ | 17 him | case |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 set | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 sorts | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 sorts | cc |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 sorts | det |
| 21 | sorts | sort | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 set | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 meats | case |
| 23 | delicate | delicate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 meats | amod |
| 24 | meats | meat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 sorts | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 placed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | place | past · passive | Jack | a luxurious chair | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in chair=Destination | ||||
| 2 | set | past · passive | rich wines and spices | before Jack | all sorts of delicate meats obl | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme before he=Destination | |||
| 3 | sort | delicate meats | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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