Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Match Girl, sentence 23

On the table was spread a snow-white tablecloth; upon it was a splendid porcelain service, and the roast goose was steaming famously with its stuffing of apple and dried plums.

Who acts: tablecloth, roast goose · What happens: spread, be, steam, dry · To what, where: white tablecloth, table

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Match Girl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tablecloth, roast goose), 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	On	on	ADP	_	3 table	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 table	det
3	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 spread	obl
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 spread	aux:pass
5	spread	spread	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 tablecloth	det
7	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 white	obl
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 snow	punct
9	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 tablecloth	amod
10	tablecloth	tablecloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 spread	obj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 service	punct
12	upon	upon	ADP	_	18 service	case
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 service	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 service	cop
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 service	det
16	splendid	splendid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 service	amod
17	porcelain	porcelain	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 service	compound
18	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 spread	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 steaming	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 steaming	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 goose	det
22	roast	roast	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 goose	compound
23	goose	goose	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 steaming	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 steaming	aux
25	steaming	steam	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 spread	advcl
26	famously	famously	ADV	_	25 steaming	advmod
27	with	with	ADP	_	29 stuffing	case
28	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 stuffing	nmod:poss
29	stuffing	stuffing	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 steaming	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 apple	case
31	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 stuffing	nmod
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 plums	cc
33	dried	dry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 plums	amod
34	plums	plum	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 apple	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 spread	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	spread	past · passive		a white tablecloth	the table		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: tablecloth=Theme on table=Destination
2	is	past	tablecloth			upon a splendid porcelain service	tree rules
3	steam	past · progressive	the roast goose			with goose's stuffing of apple and dried plums; famously property	vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with stuffing=Theme
4	dry	participle					vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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