Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Barmecide Feast., sentence 11

At last he came to a grand hall where there were soft carpets on the floor, and fine pictures on the walls, and pleasant couches to lie down upon.

Who acts: Schacabac · What happens: come, lie down · To what, where: last

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Barmecide Feast.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Schacabac), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 came	obl
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	8 hall	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 hall	det
7	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 hall	amod
8	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl
9	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	11 were	advmod
10	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	11 were	expl
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 hall	acl:relcl
12	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 carpets	amod
13	carpets	carpet	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 were	nsubj
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 floor	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 floor	det
16	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 carpets	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 pictures	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 pictures	cc
19	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 pictures	amod
20	pictures	picture	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 came	conj
21	on	on	ADP	_	23 walls	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 walls	det
23	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 pictures	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 couches	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 couches	cc
26	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 couches	amod
27	couches	couch	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 came	parataxis
28	to	to	PART	_	29 lie	mark
29	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 couches	acl
30	down	down	ADV	_	29 lie	advmod
31	upon	upon	ADP	_	29 lie	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	Schacabac			last		to a grand hall	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to hall=Initial_Location
2	lie down	to-infinitive	Schacabac not said here					down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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: «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (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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